Rough terrain negotiable mobile platform with passively adaptive double-tracks and its application to rescue missions

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1591-1596

  Lee, Woosub ^a   Kang, Sungchul ^a   Kim, Munsang ^a   Shin, Kyungchul ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Yujin Robot   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Double track mechanism; Passive adaptation; Rescue robot; Stair climbing; Teleoperation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MACHINE DESIGN; REMOTE CONTROL; SENSORS;

LOCALIZATION ALGORITHMS; RESCUE; RESCUE ROBOTS; TERRAINS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846162809     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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