Control and simulation of a tensegrity-based mobile robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 526-535

  Graells Rovira, Albert ^a   Mirats Tur, Josep M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE ROBÒTICA I INFORMÀTICA INDUSTRIAL CSIC UPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; Tensegrity structures

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MOBILE ROBOTS;

DEFORMABLE STRUCTURES; GENERAL DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; TENSEGRITY; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 63149197218     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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