A ‘sidewinding’ locomotion gait for hyper-redundant robots

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 195-216

  Burdick, J W ^a   Radford, J ^a   Chirikjian, G S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; REDUNDANCY; ROBOTICS;

HYPER REDUNDANT ROBOTS; ROBOT LOCOMOTION; SIDEWINDING GAIT; TRAVELLING WAVES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0029225221     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855395X00166     Document Type: Article

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