Dynamic rolling of modular robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 2840-2846

  Lee, Woo Ho ^a   Sanderson, Arthur C ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ROLLING; HIGHLY REDUNDANT MODULAR ROBOTS; NEWTON-EULER DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; TETROBOT MODULAR ROBOT; TIPPING;

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MOTION CONTROL; ROTATION;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0033692340     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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