Robotic rock climbing using computer vision and force feedback

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4685-4690

  Linder, Stephen Paul ^a   Wei, Edward ^a   Clay, Alexander ^a  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Mobile robots; Path planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MAGNETS; PROBABILITY;

NEAR-VERTICAL INDOOR CLIMBING WALL; PROBABILISTIC ROADMAP; ROBOTIC ROCK CLIMBING; SUCTION CUPS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846128752     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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