Towards a biologically inspired small-scale water jumping robot

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 127-131

  Shin, Bongsu ^a   Kim, Ho Young ^a   Cho, Kyu Jin ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; DEVELOPED MODELS; JUMPING ROBOTS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS; WATER STRIDERS; WATER SURFACES;

ALLOYS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 63049134553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2008.4762896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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