A survey of snake-inspired robot designs

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hopkins, James K ^a   Spranklin, Brent W ^a   Gupta, Satyandra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CHALLENGES; PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE; RESEARCH GROUPS; ROBOT DESIGNS;

ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

SERPENTES;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAIT; INSTRUMENTATION; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; ROBOTICS; SNAKES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 67949123103     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/4/2/021001     Document Type: Article

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