Sustainable robots for humanitarian demining

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-218

  Santana, Pedro F ^a   Barata, José ^b   Correia, Luís ^c  

^a IntRoSys SA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robots; Humanitarian demining; Mobile robots; Morphological computation; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STEERING; WHEELS;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ROBOTS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34249848203     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/5695     Document Type: Article

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