Performance of different foot designs for a water running robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 244-250

  Floyd, Steven ^a   Adilak, Serhat ^b   Ramirez, Steven ^a   Rogman, Raphael ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

AIR CAVITIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MAJOR AXIS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649111197     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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