Modeling of tracked mobile manipulators with consideration of track-terrain and vehicle-manipulator interactions

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1065-1074

  Liu, Yugang ^a   Liu, Guangjun ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Mobile manipulator; Tracked vehicle

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; CONTACT POINTS; FORWARD KINEMATICS ANALYSIS; HIGH-SPEED MOTION; INERTIAL FORCES; INFINITE NUMBERS; INTERACTION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE FORCES; KINEMATICS ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS MODELING; KINEMATICS MODELS; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; MOBILE MANIPULATOR; MOBILE PLATFORM; ON-BOARD MANIPULATORS; POSE ESTIMATION; SYSTEMATIC METHOD; TRACKED VEHICLE; TRACKED VEHICLES; TRACTIVE FORCE;

CENTRIFUGATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; VEHICLES;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 70350059334     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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