Action planner of hybrid leg-wheel robots for lunar and planetary exploration

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3902-3907

  Rohmer, Eric ^a   Reina, Giulio ^b   Ishigami, Genya ^a   Nagatani, Keiji ^a   Yoshida, Kazuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLANNING ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; ENERGY PROFILE; EVALUATION METHOD; HYBRID MECHANISMS; HYBRID ROBOTS; ITS EVALUATION; LEAST ENERGY; LEG-WHEEL ROBOTS; LOCOMOTION MODE; MOTION MODES; ON DYNAMICS; OPTIMAL PATHS; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; ROBOTIC COMMUNITY; ROUGH TERRAINS; SOIL CONDITIONS; SPACE COMMUNITY; SWITCHING ACTION; UNSTRUCTURED TERRAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LUNAR MISSIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; TOPOLOGY; WHEELS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 69549106492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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