On the mobility of all-terrain rovers

Industrial Robot

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-131

  Reina, Giulio ^a   Foglia, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Articulated suspension system; Control systems; Field robotics; Motion; Robots; Rover modeling; Wheel cambering mechanism

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DESIGNS; ADVANCED MOBILITIES; ALL-TERRAIN ROVERS; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICULATED VEHICLE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FIELD ROBOTICS; FOUR-WHEEL DRIVES; KINEMATIC MODEL; MOBILITY CHARACTERISTICS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MOTION; QUASI-STATIC MODEL; ROUGH TERRAINS; ROUGH-TERRAIN; SUSPENSION SYSTEM; UNEVEN TERRAIN; VARIABLE CAMBERS; WHEEL CAMBER;

AUTOMOBILE SUSPENSIONS; CAMBERS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DESIGN; LANDFORMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTS; VEHICLES; WHEELS;

SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS);

EID: 84872760793     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911311297720     Document Type: Article

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