Mobile Robots in Rough Terrain - Dr. Karl Iagnemma

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Volume 12
Editors: Bruno Siciliano · Oussama Khatib · Frans Groen

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K. Iagnemma S. Dubowsky
Mobile Robots
in Rough Terrain
Estimation, Motion Planning,
and Control with Application
to Planetary Rovers
With 58 Figures
Professor Bruno Siciliano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi di Napoli
Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy, email: siciliano@unina.it
Professor Oussama Khatib, Robotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA, email: khatib@cs.stanford.edu
Professor Frans Groen, Department of Computer Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403,
1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, email: groen@science.uva.nl
STAR (Springer Tracts inAdvanced Robotics) has been promoted under the auspices of EURON (European
Robotics Research Network)
Authors
Dr. Karl Iagnemma
Prof. Dr. Steven Dubowsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
USA
ISSN 1610-7438
ISBN 3-540-21968-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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