Global motion planning for modular robots with local motion primitives

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2465-2470

  Vonasek, Vojtech ^a   Saska, Martin ^a   Kosnar, Karel ^a   Preucil, Libor ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONFIGURATION SPACE; MOTION PRIMITIVES; PERIODIC CONTROL SIGNALS; RANGE OF MOTIONS; RAPIDLY-EXPLORING RANDOM TREES; SPACE EXPLORATIONS;

MODULAR ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; SPACE RESEARCH;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84887299368     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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