Design and realization of a novel reconfigurable robot with serial and parallel mechanisms

2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 697-702

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

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mechanical structure; Reconfigurable robot; Serial and parallel mechanism

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANISMS; ROBOTS;

ADAPTIVE LOCOMOTION; APPLIED (CO); BASIC FUNCTIONS; HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS; IN ORDER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; MILITARY RECONNAISSANCE; PARALLEL MECHANISM (PM); RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SITE TESTING; THREE DIMENSIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 46249086246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2006.340291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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