Planetary exploration in usarsim: A case study including real world data from mars

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5399 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 463-472

  Birk, Andreas ^a   Poppinga, Jann ^a   Stoyanov, Todor ^a   Nevatia, Yashodhan ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT MOBILE ROBOT; NON-TRIVIAL; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; PLANETARY SURFACES; REAL WORLD DATA; ROBOT SIMULATIONS; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; UNIFIED SYSTEM;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MOBILE ROBOTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70349332663     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02921-9_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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