Embedded robotics: Mobile robot design and applications with embedded systems: Second edition

Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-458

  Bräunl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-34319-9     Document Type: Book

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