Mobile robots in rough terrain: Estimation, motion planning, and control with application to planetary rovers

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Iagnemma, Karl ^a   Dubowsky, Steven ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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