Abigaille-I: Towards the development of a spider-inspired climbing robot for space use

Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 384-389

  Menon, C ^a   Li , Y ^a   Sameoto, D ^a   Martens, C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; MACHINE DESIGN; MOTION CONTROL; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); ROBOTICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; CONTROLLED JOINTS; ROBOT LEGS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SPACE ENVIRONMENTS; SPACE USE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 63049125582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2008.4762903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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