Cross-coupled control for all-terrain rovers

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 785-800

  Reina, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

All terrain rovers; Motion control; Slippage reduction

Indexed keywords

ALL-TERRAIN ROVERS; CONVENTIONAL CONTROLLERS; CROSS COUPLED CONTROL; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; POSTURE ERROR; ROUGH TERRAINS; SYNCHRONIZATION ERROR;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MOTION CONTROL; WHEELS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84872796918     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130100785     Document Type: Article

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