Efficient locomotion for a self-reconfiguring robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2963-2969

  Kotay, Keith ^a,b   Rus, Daniela ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Molecule robot; Self reconfiguring robot

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GAIT ANALYSIS;

LOCOMOTION ALGORITHMS; LOCOMOTION GAIT; MOLECULE ROBOTS; SELF RECONFIGURING ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33846134048     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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