LUNARES: Lunar crater exploration with heterogeneous multi robot systems

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-89

  Cordes, Florian ^a   Ahrns, Ingo ^b   Bartsch, Sebastian ^a   Birnschein, Timo ^a   Dettmann, Alexander ^a   Estable, Stéphane ^b   Haase, Stefan ^a   Hilljegerdes, Jens ^a   Koebel, David ^c   Planthaber, Steffen ^a   Roehr, Thomas M ^a   Scheper, Marc ^c   Kirchner, Frank ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^c OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Cooperative robotic team; Legged locomotion; Lunar crater exploration; Space robotics; Wheeled locomotion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROCK MECHANICS;

AUTONOMOUS TASK; COOPERATIVE ROBOTICS; GROUND CONTROL STATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEM; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; LUNAR SOUTH POLE; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SPACE ROBOTICS;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 78651297067     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-010-0081-4     Document Type: Article

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