Microgravity Hopping Robot with Controlled Hopping and Landing Capability

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2571-2576

  Shimoda, Shingo ^a   Wingart, Andreas ^a   Takahashi, Kei ^a   Kubota, Takashi ^b   Nakatani, Ichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACTUATORS; ELASTICITY; FRICTION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; KINETIC ENERGY; ROBOTICS;

ASTEROIDS; LANDING MECHANISM; MICROGRAVITY HOPPING ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0348040310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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