Design and analysis of elastodynamic locomotion for robotic insects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3519, Issue , 1998, Pages 118-127

  Lobontiu, Nicolae O ^a   Gordon, M Kurt ^a   Fischer, Gregory ^a   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a   Goldfarb, Michael ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crawling; Elastodynamic locomotion; Resonance; Robotic insects; Vibration

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; RESONANCE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ELASTODYNAMIC LOCOMOTION; ROBOTIC INSECTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0038636183     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.325732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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