Planning high-visibility stable paths for reconfigurable robots on uneven terrain

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2844-2849

  Norouzi, Mohammad ^a   Miro, Jaime Valls ^a   Dissanayake, Gamini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION; PLANNING STRATEGIES; RANGE CAMERAS; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SENSOR PAYLOADS; UNEVEN TERRAIN;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; ROBOTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84872335190     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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