Autonomous staircase detection and stair climbing for a tracked mobile robot using fuzzy controller

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1980-1985

  Mihankhah, E ^a   Kalantari, A ^a   Aboosaeedan, E ^a   Taghirad, H D ^b   Moosavian, S Ali A ^b  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (Iran)

Author keywords

Autonomous stair case detection; Autonomous stair climbing; Fuzzy controller; Tracked rescue mobile robot

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CONTROLLERS; DATA HANDLING; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; RANGE FINDERS; ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMOUS STAIR CLIMBING; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; FUZZY CONTROLLERS; LASER RANGE FINDERS; STAIR DETECTIONS; STAIR-CASE DETECTION; STAIR-CLIMBING; TRACKED MOBILE ROBOTS;

STAIRS;

EID: 70349178138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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