Multisegment large space robot: Concept and design

Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 123-132

  Spanos, P D ^a   Berka, Reginald B ^b   Tratskas, P ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

MULTISEGMENT ROBOTS; SERPENTINE ROBOTS; SPACE-BASED CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034298404     PISSN: 08931321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(2000)13:4(123)     Document Type: Article

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