Locomotion strategy for a peristaltic crawling robot in a 2-dimensional space

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 238-243

  Nakamura, Taro ^a   Iwanaga, Tomohide ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthworm; Locomotion pattern; Peristaltic crawling motion; Robot

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIPED LOCOMOTION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; ROBOTICS;

CRAWLING ROBOTS; EARTHWORM; LOCOMOTION PATTERN; PERISTALTIC CRAWLING MOTION; ROBOT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649089348     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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