Obstacle avoidance and trajectory optimisation for a power line inspection robot.

This dissertation presents the research, development and application of trajectory creation, obstacle avoidance and trajectory optimisation methods for an existing serial manipulator power line inspection robot (PLIR). The obstacle avoidance implementation allows the robot to navigate around an obst...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rowell, Timothy.
Other Authors: Boje, Edward Sidney.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9640