A biomimetic sensor for a crawling minirobot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 513-528

  Liu, Weiting ^a,b   Menciassi, A ^b   Scapellato, S ^b   Dario, P ^b   Chen, Yuquan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomimetic sensor; Crawling earthworm minirobot; Exteroceptor; Proprioceptor

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; ACTUATORS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; FABRICATION; POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SILICONES;

BIOMIMETIC SENSOR; CRAWLING EARTHWORM MINIROBOT; EXTEROCEPTOR; MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS; PROPRIOCEPTOR; SENSORISED SILICONE SEGMENTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33745648758     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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