Required improvements and possible solutions for urban search and rescue (USAR) robots

International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems 2008, ARCS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-57

  Stopforth, Riaan ^a   Bright, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS; SEARCH AND RESCUE; TRACTION SYSTEMS; URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE;

COMMUNICATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77958538361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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