Centaur: NASA's mobile humanoid designed for field work

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2928-2933

  Mehling, Joshua S ^a   Strawser, Philip ^a   Bridgwater, Lyndon ^a   Verdeyen, W K ^a   Rovekamp, Roger ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b ESCG   (United States)

Author keywords

Dexterous; Field work; Humanoid; Mobile manipulation; Robonaut

Indexed keywords

HUMAN OPERATORS; HUMAN-LIKE TASKS; MARTIAN MISSIONS; MOBILE MANIPULATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LUNAR MISSIONS; NASA; REMOTE CONTROL;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 36349020234     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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