Continuum robot arms inspired by cephalopods

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5804, Issue , 2005, Pages 303-314

  Walker, Ian D ^a   Dawson, Darren M ^a   Flash, Tamar ^b   Grasso, Frank W ^c   Hanlon, Roger T ^d   Hochner, Binyamin ^e   Kier, William M ^f   Pagano, Christopher C ^g   Rahn, Christopher D ^h   Zhang, Qiming M ⁱ  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired; Continuum; Muscle; Muscular hydrostat; Octopus; Robot manipulator

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; CONTINUUM; MUSCULAR HYDROSTAT; OCTOPUS; ROBOT MANIPULATOR;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MUSCLE; POLYMERS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 27544482368     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.606201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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