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Most autonomous mobile robots are constructed as vehicles with wheels, legs, or tracks, confining them to life in a two-dimensional world. This certainly limits the kinds of interesting behaviours that can be studied with these robots. Although there are also spatially mobile robots, constructed as helicopters, airplanes, or blimps, they usually have several serious disadvantages, such as very limited pay load, high cost, difficulty of control, restriction to outdoor use, or high power consumption. In this paper, we propose a new topology for a spatially mobile robot which is simple, easy to control, inexpensive, and accepts relatively large payloads with relatively low power consumption
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Nilsson, M. (1995). A New Three-degree-of-freedom Spatially Mobile Robot Topology or Kurt: A Mobile Robot for the Study of Prototypical Autonomy. In: Steels, L. (eds) The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents. NATO ASI Series, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79629-6_19
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