Design of an autonomous amphibious robot for surf zone operation: Part I mechanical design for multi-mode mobility

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1459-1465

  Boxerbaum, Alexander S ^a   Werk, Philip ^a   Quinn, Roger D ^a   Vaidyanathan, Ravi ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibious operations; Biologically inspired robotics; Legged vehicles; Multi mode mobility; Reduced actuation

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS; BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTICS; LEGGED VEHICLES; MULTI MODE MOBILITY; REDUCED ACTUATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MOTION CONTROL; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROPELLERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27644502434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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