A novel track-drive mobile robotic framework for conducting projects on robotics and control systems

Life Science Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 130-137

  Iqbal, Jamshed ^a,b   Riaz un Nabi, S ^c   Attayyab Khan, Abdul ^d   Khan, Hamza ^e  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c NED UET   (Pakistan)

^d KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Educational robotic platform; Robot control; Robotics project; Tether tracking; Track drive robot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880258292     PISSN: 10978135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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