High-speed navigation of unmanned ground vehicles on uneven terrain using potential fields

Robotica

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 409-424

  Shimoda, Shingo ^a,b   Kuroda, Yoji ^a   Iagnemma, Karl ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; Motion planning; Outdoor terrain; Potential fields

Indexed keywords

MANEUVERABILITY; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

OUTDOOR TERRAIN; POTENTIAL FIELDS; UGV NAVIGATION; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 34547149532     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574706003171     Document Type: Article

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