Modeling and simulation of inchworm mode locomotion

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5314 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 617-624

  Ghanbari, Ahmad ^a   Rostami, Ali ^a   Noorani, Sayyed Mohammad Reza Sayyed ^a   Fakhrabadi, Mir Masoud Seyyed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Close loop; Crawling locomotion; Inchworm robot; Manipulator; Simulation; Trajectory generation

Indexed keywords

MATLAB; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CLOSE LOOP; CRAWLING LOCOMOTION; INCHWORM ROBOT; SIMULATION; TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 56749168228     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88513-9_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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