Toward autonomous free-climbing robots

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2005, Pages 6-15

  Bretl, Tim ^a   Latombe, Jean Claude ^b   Rock, Stephen ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; HARDWARE SYSTEM; LIMBED ROBOTS; MULTI-LIMBED ROBOTS; QUASI-STATIC; STEP-CLIMBING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84885043365     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11008941_2     Document Type: Article

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