Results from a long term study of a portable field robot in urban terrain

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6561, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lundberg, Cari ^a   Reinhold, Roger ^b   Christensen, Henrik I ^c  

^a SWEDISH NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

MOUT; PackBot; Robot; UGV; User study

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); IMAGE ACQUISITION; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

BOMB REMOVAL; MINE CLEARING; PACKBOT; PORTABLE FIELD ROBOTS; USER-STUDY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 35948993508     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.718340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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