RoACH: An autonomous 2.4g crawling hexapod robot

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 26-33

  Hoover, Aaron M ^a   Steltz, Erik ^a   Fearing, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ELECTRONICS; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; GLASS REINFORCED COMPOSITES; HEXAPOD ROBOTS; LEGGED ROBOTS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE; SMART COMPOSITES;

ALLOYS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 69549110090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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