Zero Carrier: A Novel Eight Leg-Wheels Hybrid Stair Climbing Mobile Vehicle

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-51

  Yuan, Jianjun ^a   Hirose, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

leg wheel hybrid; stair climbing mobile vehicle; stair climbing wheelchair; Zero Carrier

Indexed keywords

STAIRS;

CONTROL METHODS; CURRENT SENSORS; DISTANCE SENSORS; LEG MECHANISM; LEG-WHEEL HYBRID; PRISMATIC JOINT; STAIR CLIMBING MOBILE VEHICLES; STAIR CLIMBING WHEELCHAIR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION; ZERO CARRIER;

HYBRID VEHICLES;

EID: 67349114248     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2005.p0044     Document Type: Article

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