Biomechatronic design and development of a legged rat robot

2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 847-852

  Patanè, Francesco ^a   Mattoli, Virgilio ^a   Laschi, Cecilia ^a   Mazzolai, Barbara ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a   Ishii, Hiroyuki ^b   Takanishi, Atsuo ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal robot interaction; Bioinspired robotics; Bioroboties; Legged robot; Rat robot

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; AUTOMATION; BIOMIMETICS; CABLES; EXPERIMENTS; MACHINE DESIGN; PEST CONTROL; RAT CONTROL; RATS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TENDONS;

ANIMAL-ROBOT INTERACTION; BIOINSPIRED ROBOTICS; BIOMECHATRONIC; BIOROBOTIES; BODY MOTIONS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEGGED ROBOT; MANIPULATION TASKS; RAT ROBOT;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 49249132190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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