A cooperative network of reconfigurable stair-climbing robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2553-2556

  Gaston, James ^a   Raahemifar, Kaamran ^a   Hiscocks, Peter ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTEGRATED CONTROL;

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY; COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; STAIR-CLIMBING ROBOTS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 34547322012     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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