Planetary cliff descent using cooperative robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 259-272

  Mumm, Erik ^a   Farritor, Shane ^a   Pirjanian, Paolo ^b   Leger, Chris ^c   Schenker, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Evolution Robotics Inc   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cliff decent; Cooperating robots; Planetary exploration; Robots for planetary exploration; Tethers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; NAVIGATION; PLANETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY; SPACE RESEARCH; TENSILE TESTING; TETHERLINES;

CLIFF DESCENT; COOPERATING ROBOTS; PLANETARY EXPLORATIONS; TETHERS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3543144804     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000025790.37415.83     Document Type: Article

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