Safe autonomous stair climbing for a tracked mobile robot using a kinematics based controller

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1891-1896

  Kalantari, Arash ^a   Mihankhah, Ehsan ^a   Moosavian, S Ali A ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS STAIR CLIMBING; DESIGN AWARD; ERROR SIGNAL; FEED-FORWARD; FEEDBACK ACTION; LASER RANGE FINDERS; RESCUE ROBOT; ROBOCUP; TIME STEP; TRACKING CONTROLS;

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MECHATRONICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; STAIRS;

INTELLIGENT MECHATRONICS;

EID: 70350464972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AIM.2009.5229765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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