Autonomous mobile robots in unknown outdoor environments /

"Mobile robots have been increasingly applied in many different scenarios, such as space exploration and search and rescue, where the robots are required to travel over uneven terrain while outdoors. This book provides a new framework and the related algorithms for designing autonomous mobile r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhu, Xiaorui (Author), Kim, Youngshik (Author), Minor, Mark Andrew (Author), Qiu, Chunxin (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Section I. Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Section II. Locomotion mechanism
  • Section III. Motion control
  • Cooperative motion control and sensing architecture
  • Kinematic motion control
  • Sensory system
  • Robust motion control
  • Overall evaluation
  • Section IV. Localization and mapping
  • Terrain-inclination-based localization and mapping
  • Cloud-based localization architecture in large-scale environments.