Highly Mobile and Robust Small Quadruped Robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 82-87

  Morrey, Jeremy M ^a   Lambrecht, Bram ^a   Horchler, Andrew D ^a   Ritzmann, Roy E ^a   Quinn, Roger D ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MOTION PLANNING; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SERVOMECHANISMS; WHEELS;

PHONOTAXIS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0347410653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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