Design of an autonomous amphibious robot for surf zone operations: Part II - Hardware, control implementation and simulation

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1465-1470

  Harkins, Richard ^a   Ward, Jason ^a   Vaidyanathan, Ravi ^a   Boxerbaum, Alexander S ^b   Quinn, Roger D ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robotics; Legged vehicles; Micro robots; Reduced actuation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTICS; LEGGED VEHICLES; MICRO-ROBOTS; REDUCED ACTUATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HARDWARE; PRODUCT DESIGN; SENSORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27644554284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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