Design and validation of a whegs robot in USARSim

Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 105-112

  Taylor, B K ^a   Balakirsky, S ^b   Messina, E ^b   Quinn, R D ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robotics; Simulation; Urban search and rescue; USARSim; Whegs

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BIOLOGY; BIOMIMETICS; GROUND VEHICLES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE; USARSIM; WHEGS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 45549084598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1660877.1660891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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