Wheeled locomotion for payload carrying with modular robot

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1331-1337

  Hou, Feili ^a   Ranasinghe, Nadeesha ^a   Salemi, Behnam ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL ROBOTS; HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES; LOCOMOTION GAITS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 69549096275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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