Circular/spherical robots for crawling and jumping

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3595-3600

  Sugiyama, Yuuta ^a   Shiotsu, Ayumi ^a   Yamanaka, Masashi ^a   Hirai, Shinichi ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crawling; Deformation; Jumping; Locomotion; Soft body

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOTION PLANNING; RIGIDITY;

CRAWLING; JUMPING; SOFT BODIES; SPHERICAL ROBOTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 33846138346     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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