Modeling of the supporting legs for designing biomimetic water strider robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2303-2310

  Song, Yun Seong ^a   Suhr, Steve H ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT LEG MODEL; SUPPORTING LEGS; SURFACE BREAKING CONDITION; WATER STRIDERS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTICS; SURFACE TENSION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845671324     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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