Design, construction, and analysis of a continuum robot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1503-1507

  Neppalli, Srinivas ^a,b   Jones, Bryan A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robot; Continuum robot; Kinematics; Trunk

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; JOB ANALYSIS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ROBOT; CONTINUUM ROBOT; CONTINUUM ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; TRUNK;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 51349109674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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