A robotic catapult based on the closed elastica and its application to robotic tasks

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1508-1513

  Mochiyama, Hiromi ^a   Watari, Masamitsu ^c   Fujimoto, Hideo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

ELASTICA; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; ROBOTIC TASKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51349101280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4398992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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