Collaborative mapping of an earthquake-damaged building via ground and aerial robots

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 832-841

  Michael, Nathan ^a   Shen, Shaojie ^a   Mohta, Kartik ^a   Mulgaonkar, Yash ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Nagatani, Keiji ^b   Okada, Yoshito ^b   Kiribayashi, Seiga ^b   Otake, Kazuki ^b   Yoshida, Kazuya ^b   Ohno, Kazunori ^b   Takeuchi, Eijiro ^b   Tadokoro, Satoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; RESEARCH TOPICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPS; TOHOKU UNIVERSITY;

EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; MAPPING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84865277109     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21436     Document Type: Article

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