Design, optimization, and control of a new class of reconfigurable hopping rovers

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5150-5155

  Schmidt Wetekam, Chris ^a   Zhang, David ^a   Hughes, Robert ^a   Bewley, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT;

ENTERTAINMENT APPLICATIONS; HOMELAND SECURITY; LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR; MECHANICAL DESIGN; RECONFIGURABLE HOPPING ROVERS;

ELECTRIC BATTERIES;

EID: 62749103318     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434975     Document Type: Conference Paper

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