Autonomous legged hill and stairwell ascent

9th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 134-142

  Johnson, Aaron M ^a   Hale, Matthew T ^a   Haynes, G C ^a   Koditschek, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous Robot; Hexapod; Hill Climbing; Self Manipulation; Sequential Composition; Stair Climbing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; HEXAPOD; HILL CLIMBING; SELF-MANIPULATION; SEQUENTIAL COMPOSITIONS; STAIR CLIMBING;

ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84855853272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2011.6106785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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