Kinematic reconfigurability control for an environmental mobile robot operating in the Amazon rain forest

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 197-216

  Freitas, Gustavo ^a   Gleizer, Gabriel ^a   Lizarralde, Fernando ^a   Hsu, Liu ^a   Dos Reis, Ney Robinson Salvi ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; AMAZON RAIN FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GROUND CLEARANCE; HYBRID ROBOTS; IRREGULAR TERRAIN; KINEMATIC CONTROL; LEGGED ROBOTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABILITY; STABILITY MARGINS; TRACTION EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; RAIN; WHEELS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 77449125696     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20334     Document Type: Article

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