Semi-autonomous traversal on uneven terrain for a tracked vehicle using autonomous control of active flippers

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2667-2672

  Nagatani, Keiji ^a   Yamasaki, Ayato ^a   Yoshida, Kazuya ^a   Yoshida, Tomoaki ^b   Koyanagi, Eiji ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; GYRO SENSORS; LASER RANGE SENSORS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SENSORS AND ACTUATORS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TERRAIN SENSING; TRACKED VEHICLES; TRAVERSABILITY; UNEVEN TERRAIN;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SENSORS; VEHICLES;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 69549083531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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