Locomotion capabilities of a novel reconfigurable robot with 3 DOF active joints for rugged terrain

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5588-5593

  Zhang, Houxiang ^a   Deng, Zhicheng ^b   Wang, Wei ^b   Zhang, Jianwei ^a   Zong, Guanghua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Docking mechanism; Locomotion capabilities; Reconfigurable robot; Spherical joint

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; DOCKING; KINEMATICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACTIVE JOINTS; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; RUGGED TERRAIN;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250685062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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