The Kinematics of Hyper-Redundant Robot Locomotion

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 781-793

  Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a   Burdick, Joel W ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEFORMATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANISMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; REDUNDANCY;

BACKBONE CURVE MODEL; HYPER-REDUNDANT ROBOTS; LOCOMOTION ALGORITHMS; MACROSCOPIC GEOMETRY; MECHANISM DEFORMATION; ROBOT LOCOMOTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0029531840     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.478426     Document Type: Article

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