Autonomous navigation for BigDog

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4736-4741

  Wooden, David ^a   Malchano, Matthew ^a   Blankespoor, Kevin ^a   Howardy, Andrew ^b   Rizzi, Alfred A ^a   Raibert, Marc ^a  

^a Boston Dynamics   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; FIELD TEST; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; FOUR-LEGGED ROBOT; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; LASER SCANNER; NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS; ROUGH-TERRAIN; STEREO VISION SYSTEM;

LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; STEREO VISION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955796059     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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