Field trials and testing of the OctArm continuum manipulator

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2336-2341

  McMahan, W ^a   Chitrakaran, V ^a   Csencsits, M ^a   Dawson, D ^a   Walker, I D ^a   Jones, B A ^b   Pritts, M ^c   Dienno, D ^c   Grissom, M ^c   Rahn, C D ^c  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum manipulators

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ROBOTICS;

CONTINUUM MANIPULATORS; CONTINUUM ROBOTS; FIELD TESTS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33845545664     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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