The marXbot, a miniature mobile robot opening new perspectives for the collective-robotic research

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4187-4193

  Bonani, Michael ^a   Longchamp, Valentin ^a   Magnenat, Stéphane ^a   Rétornaz, Philippe ^a   Burnier, Daniel ^a   Roulet, Gilles ^a   Vaussard, Florian ^a   Bleuler, Hannes ^a   Mondada, Francesco ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM PROCESSOR; ATTACHMENT MECHANISM; BATTERY LIFE; COMPLEX TASK; EXCHANGE MECHANISM; HIGH QUALITY; HOT-SWAP; LONG DURATION; MINIATURE MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTIC EXPERIMENTS; ROUGH-TERRAIN; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651515920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5649153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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