Dynamic simulation-based action planner for a reconfigurable hybrid leg-wheel planetary exploration rover

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 1219-1238

  Rohmer, Eric ^a   Reina, Giulio ^b   Yoshida, Kazuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action planning; Hybrid leg wheel mechanism; Lanetary exploration; Reconfigurable robot

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLANNING; ACTION PLANNING ALGORITHM; CONCEPT PROTOTYPE; CRITICAL ISSUES; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; DYNAMIC SIMULATORS; ELEVATION MAPS; ENERGY PROFILE; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HYBRID MECHANISMS; LEG-WHEEL ROBOTS; LOCOMOTION MODE; MOTION MODES; OPTIMAL PATHS; PATH-BASED; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; PLANETARY EXPLORATION ROVERS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; SOIL PROPERTY; SPACE COMMUNITY; SPACE MISSIONS; SWITCHING ACTION; UNEVEN TERRAIN; WHEEL MECHANISM; WHEEL MOBILE ROBOT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MODULAR ROBOTS; PLANNING; TOPOLOGY; WHEELS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77953205553     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918610X501499     Document Type: Article

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