Friction based locomotion module for mobile MEMS robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3815-3820

  Driesen, Walter ^a   Rida, Amar ^a   Breguet, Jean Marc ^a   Clavel, Reymond ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOCOMOTION MODULE; SIZE CONSTRAINTS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

EID: 51349154648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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