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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Multifunctional Whisker Arrays for Distance Detection, Terrain Mapping, and Object Feature Extraction
: Several species of animals use whiskers to accurately navigate and explore objects in the absence of vision. We have developed inexpensive arrays of artificial whiskers based on ...
Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin,...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
136views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Motion Dynamics of a Rover with Slip-Based Traction Model
This paper investigates kinetic behavior of a planetary rover with attention to tire-soil traction mechanics and articulated body dynamics, and thereby study the control when the ...
Kazuya Yoshida, Hiroshida Hamano
IJRR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Optimal Rough Terrain Trajectory Generation for Wheeled Mobile Robots
An algorithm is presented for wheeled mobile robot trajectory generation that achieves a high degree of generality and efficiency. The generality derives from numerical lineariza...
Thomas M. Howard, Alonzo Kelly