Comprehensive locomotion performance evaluation of all-terrain robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4260-4265

  Thueer, Thomas ^a   Krebs, Ambroise ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

All terrain robots; Locomotion systems; Robot design; Rover; Space robotics

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT THEORY; NASA; OPTIMIZATION; STATIC ANALYSIS;

ALL TERRAIN ROBOTS; LOCOMOTION SYSTEMS; ROBOT DESIGN; SPACE ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250640780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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