Kinematic study of the spider system in a biomimetic perspective

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3077-3082

  Gasparetto, Alessandro ^a   Vidoni, Renato ^a   Seidl, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION ELEMENT; EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL SURFACES; LOCOMOTION PATTERNS; LOW MASS; ROBOT PROTOTYPES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT;

ADHESION; BIOMIMETICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 69549119132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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