A navigation system for automated loaders in underground mines

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue , 2006, Pages 129-140

  Larsson, Johan ^a,b   Broxvall, Mathias ^b   Saffiotti, Alessandro ^b  

^a Atlas Copco Tools Central Europe GmbH   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Behavior based navigation; Fuzzy logic; Hybrid maps; Mining vehicles; RFID

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748910315     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11736592_12     Document Type: Article

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