Kinematic reconfigurability of mobile robots on irregular terrains

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1340-1345

  Freitas, Gustavo ^a   Lizarralde, Fernando ^a   Hsu, Liu ^a   Dos Reis, Ney R Salvi ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

AMAZON RAIN FOREST; BRAZILIAN PETROLEUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRREGULAR TERRAIN; KINEMATIC CONTROL; RECONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE MOBILE ROBOTS; WHEEL-LEGGED ROBOTS;

TRACTION CONTROL;

EID: 85113903526     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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