Autonomous control of a snake-like robot utilizing passive mechanism

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 381-386

  Ito, Kazuyuki ^a   Fukumori, Yoshitaka ^b  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SERIO TOYO Group   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomous control; Passive mechanism; Snake like robot

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; PASSIVE MECHANISM; SNAKE LIKE ROBOT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845672727     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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