Motion study of an omni-directional rover for step climbing

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1585-1590

  Low, K H ^a   Loh, W K ^a   Heng, Wang ^a   Angeles, Jorge ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Omni directional wheels; Rover; Simulation and experiment; Wheeled mobile robot

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; ROBOTICS;

LOCOMOTION; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL WHEELS; ROVER; SHRIMP SUSPENSION; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT (WMR);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846131961     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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