Autonomous stair climbing with reconfigurable tracked mobile robot

ROSE 2007 - International Workshop on Robotic and Sensor Environments, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 104-109

  Ben Tzvi, Pinhas ^a   Ito, Shingo ^a   Goldenberg, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous climbing; Control architecture; Mobile robot; Robot sensors

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; STAIRS;

AUTONOMOUS CLIMBING; AUTONOMOUS STAIR CLIMBING; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILE ROBOT; RE-CONFIGURABLE; ROBOT SENSORS; TECHNICAL PROBLEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 48049112989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROSE.2007.4373976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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