Serpentine Locomotion with Robotic Snakes

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 64-81

  Saito, Masashi ^a   Fukaya, Masakazu ^b   Iwasaki, Tetsuya ^c  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GAIT ANALYSIS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEED CONTROL;

MULTILINK ARTICULATED ROBOTS; ROBOTIC SNAKES; SERPENTINE LOCOMOTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036465388     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/37.980248     Document Type: Article

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