Search-based foot placement for quadrupedal traversal of challenging terrain

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1461-1466

  Mitchell, Barrett ^b   Hofmann, Andreas G ^b,c   Williams, Brian C ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUADRUPEDAL TRAVERSAL; ROUGH TERRAIN; SEARCH-BASED FOOT PLACEMENT; WHEELED ROBOTS;

MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 36349025853     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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