Off-road Robotics—An Overview

KI - Kunstliche Intelligenz

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-116

  Berns, Karsten ^a   Kuhnert, Klaus Dieter ^b   Armbrust, Christopher ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control architectures; Environment representation; Navigation; Off road; Perception; Robot

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

'CURRENT; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATIONS; IT FOCUS; OFF-ROAD; ROBOT; ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATE OF RESEARCH;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 84870616699     PISSN: 09331875     EISSN: 16101987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13218-011-0100-4     Document Type: Article

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