A bending pneumatic rubber actuator realizing soft-bodied manta swimming robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4975-4980

  Suzumori, Koichi ^a,b   Endo, Satoshi ^b   Kanda, Takefumi ^a,b   Kato, Naomi ^a,c   Suzuki, Hiroyoshi ^c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTA SWIMMING ROBOTS; OPTIMAL ACTUATOR DESIGN; PNEUMATIC RUBBER ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; RAPID PROTOTYPING; RUBBER MOLDING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 36348961948     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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