Polychaete-like undulatory robotic locomotion in unstructured substrates

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1200-1212

  La Spina, Giovanni ^a   Sfakiotakis, Michael ^b   Tsakiris, Dimitris P ^b   Menciassi, Arianna ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Annelids; Biomimetic robotics; Biomimetics; Locomotion; Motion control; Polychaete annelids; Undulatory locomotion

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL;

BIOMIMETIC ROBOTIC PROTOTYPES; POLYCHAETE ANNELID WORMS; ROBOTIC LOCOMOTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 37549019285     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.909791     Document Type: Article

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