Control of a robot dinosaur

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1385, 1999, Pages 863-868

  Papantoniou, V ^a   Avlakiotis, P ^a   Alexander, R McN ^b  

^a Eur Assoc Res in Legged Robots   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dinosaur; Quadrupedal locomotion; Robot; Walking

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; DINOSAURIA; IGUANODON;

EID: 0033614582     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0438     Document Type: Article

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