Terrain discovery and navigation of a multi-articulated linear robot using map-seeking circuits

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6229, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Snider, Ross K ^a   Arathorn, David W ^b  

^a Snider Technology Inc   (United States)

^b General Intelligence Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory navigation; Map seeking circuits; Multi articulated robot; Obstacle avoidance; Solution clouds; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MAPPING;

EXPLORATORY NAVIGATION; MAP SEEKING CIRCUIT; MULTI-ARTICULATED ROBOT; SOLUTION CLOUDS; TERRAIN MAPPING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33748463556     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.663721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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