Crunchbot: A mobile whiskered robot platform

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6856 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 102-113

  Fox, Charles W ^a   Evans, Mathew H ^a   Lepora, Nathan F ^a   Pearson, Martin ^a   Ham, Andy ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOR SURFACE; LASER SENSOR; NAVIGATION TASKS; RADIAL DISTANCE; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; ROBOT PLATFORM; STANDARD ALGORITHMS; SYSTEMS LEVELS; TACTILE NAVIGATION SYSTEM; TACTILE PERCEPTION;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; KALMAN FILTERS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 80052804690     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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