Traveling performance evaluation of planetary rovers on loose soil

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 648-662

  Sutoh, Masataku ^a   Yusa, Junya ^a   Ito, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nagatani, Keiji ^a   Yoshida, Kazuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-LINE; LOOSE SOILS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PLANETARY ROVERS; SURFACE PATTERN; TERRAMECHANICS; TRACK MECHANISM; WHEEL MECHANISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES; PLANETARY LANDERS; RATING; WHEELS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84862172448     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21405     Document Type: Article

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