Bio-inspired rough terrain contact patch perception

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1719-1724

  Kanoulas, Dimitrios ^a   Vona, Marsette ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS;

BIOINSPIRED SYSTEMS; COMMODITY HARDWARE; CONTACT PATCH; CURVED SURFACES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; ROUGH TERRAINS; SELECTION ALGORITHM;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84929180229     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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