Performance of the improvements of the CAESAR robot

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-226

  Stopforth, Riaan ^a   Bright, Glen ^a   Harley, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAESAR; Field testing; USAR robot

Indexed keywords

TRACTION CONTROL;

CAESAR; DISASTER SCENARIO; FIELD TESTING; PROTOTYPE ROBOT; ROBOT PERFORMANCE; SEARCH AND RESCUE; TRACTION SYSTEMS; URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77958564906     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/9701     Document Type: Article

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