Mobility prediction for unmanned ground vehicles in uncertain environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6962, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kewlani, Gaurav ^a   Iagnemma, Karl ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homogeneous chaos; Latin hypercube sampling; Monte carlo; Stochastic response surface; Terrain modeling; Unmanned ground vehicle; Vehicle mobility; Vehicle rollover; Wheel soil interaction

Indexed keywords

GROUND VEHICLES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOTION PLANNING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

HOMOGENEOUS CHAOS; HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; TERRAIN MODELING; TERRAIN NEGOTIABILITY; VEHICLE MOBILITY; VEHICLE ROLLOVER; WHEEL SOIL INTERACTION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 44349184211     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.782222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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