Amphibious modular robotic astrobiology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6561, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yim, Mark ^a   Shirmohammadi, Babak ^a   Benelli, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibious robots; Astrobiology; Modular; Reconfigurable

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIOUS ROBOTS; LIQUID SAMPLING; QUICKSAND-LIKE MUD; ROBOTIC ASTROBIOLOGY;

CORE SAMPLES; COST REDUCTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; REMOTE CONTROL;

ASTROBIOLOGY;

EID: 36048951380     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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