Multi-DOF flexible robot base on tongue

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2673-2678

  Takanobu, Hideaki ^a,b   Tandai, Tadayoshi ^a   Miura, Hirofumi ^a  

^a KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flexible; Multi DOF; Robot; Tongue

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FEEDBACK; MASTICATION; MUSCLE; SPEECH; TENDONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLEXIBLE MATERIAL; HYOGLOSSAL MUSCLE; MUSCULAR ORGAN; TONGUE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042532343     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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