Design and development of the lifting and propulsion mechanism for a biologically inspired water runner robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 698-709

  Floyd, Steven ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic propulsion; Aquatic robot; Biomimetic robots; Lizard; Locomotion; Mobile robots; Water running

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; MECHANISMS; MISSILES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; BIO MIMETIC; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTHS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FOUR LEGGED ROBOTS; FOUR-BAR MECHANISMS; LEGGED ROBOTS; PENETRATION DEPTHS; POWER RATIOS; POWER REQUIREMENTS; RUNNING SPEED; TWO LEGGED ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 46349099686     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.924258     Document Type: Article

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