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CLAWAR WP3 Applications: Natural/Outdoor and Underwater Robots

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Climbing and Walking Robots

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This paper summarizes the activities performed in the Workpackage 3 Application sector of the European thematic network CLAWAR. This represents the result of the joint work performed by the WP3 members during network meetings, workshops and special sessions organised.

For the second year two task were selected: Task 3.3: Natural / Outdoor robot applications and Task 3.4: Underwater applications.

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Longo, D., Muscato, G. (2005). CLAWAR WP3 Applications: Natural/Outdoor and Underwater Robots. In: Climbing and Walking Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29461-9_114

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