A fuzzy controller for autonomous negotiation of stairs by a mobile robot with adjustable tracks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5001 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 196-207

  Chonnaparamutt, Winai ^a   Birk, Andreas ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; ROBOTICS; STAIRS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

FUZZY CONTROLLERS; ROBOCUP;

ROBOTS;

EID: 50349102947     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68847-1_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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