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Ball-Shaped Robots: An Historical Overview and Recent Developments at TKK

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Field and Service Robotics

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  1. Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5500, 02015 TKK, Finland

    Jussi Suomela & Tomi Ylikorpi

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  1. Autonomous Systems Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, P.O. Box 883, 4069, Kenmore, Australia

    Peter Corke

  2. Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney, The Rose Street Building J04, NSW, Australia

    Salah Sukkariah

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Suomela, J., Ylikorpi, T. (2006). Ball-Shaped Robots: An Historical Overview and Recent Developments at TKK. In: Corke, P., Sukkariah, S. (eds) Field and Service Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33453-8_29

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