Amphibious 3D active cord mechanism "HELIX" with Helical swimming motion

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 775-780

  Takayama, Toshio ^a   Hirose, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HERMETIC DEVICES; KINEMATICS; MOTION COMPENSATION; PROPULSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

HELICAL DISTORTION PROPULSION; HELICAL SWIMMING MOTION; HERMETICAL ROBOT; LOCOMOTION STRATEGY; SNAKE LIKE ROBOT; SPIROCHETE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ACTIVE CORD MECHANISM;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036450930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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