A novel control architecture and design of hybrid locomotion and manipulation tracked mobile robot

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1374-1381

  Ben Tzvi, Pinhas ^a   Goldenberg, Andrew A ^a   Zu, Jean W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control architecture; Mobile robot; RF communication; Simulations; Virtual prototype

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; HYBRID COMPUTERS; MANIPULATORS; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; MECHANICAL DESIGN; ROBOT LOCOMOTION; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 37049035333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2007.4303750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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