Snake-like locomotion: Integration of geometry and kineto-statics

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 447-458

  Bayraktaroglu, Zeki Y ^a   Butel, Fabienne ^a   Pasqui, Viviane ^a   Blazevic, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Geometrical modeling; Locomotion; Optimization; Simulation; Trajectory planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; KINEMATICS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; KINETO-STATICS; SNAKE PROGRESSING; SNAKE-LIKE LOCOMOTION; TRAJECTORY PLANNING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034444110     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855300741942     Document Type: Article

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