Towards a 3g crawling robot through the integration of microrobot technologies

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 296-302

  Sahai, Ranjana ^a   Avadhanula, Srinath ^a   Groff, Richard ^a   Steltz, Erik ^a   Wood, Robert ^a   Fearing, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; Crawling microrobots; Design and fabrication

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FINITE AUTOMATA; ITERATIVE METHODS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

BIOINSPIRED FIBER ARRAYS; BIOMIMETICS; CRAWLING MICROROBOTS; HEXAPOD STRUCTURE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33845660461     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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