© Julio Alberto Mendoza-Mendoza, Victor Gonzalez-Villela 2020
J. A. Mendoza-Mendoza et al.Advanced Robotic Vehicles Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5531-5_1

1. Hardware and Software Description

Julio Alberto Mendoza-Mendoza1 , Victor Gonzalez-Villela1, Gabriel Sepulveda-Cervantes2, Mauricio Mendez-Martinez3 and Humberto Sossa-Azuela4
(1)
FI UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
(2)
CIDETEC IPN, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
(3)
UPIITA IPN, Ciudad de México, Mexico
(4)
CIC IPN, Ciudad de México, Mexico
 

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