Mechanical design of Odin, an extendable heterogeneous deformable modular robot

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 883-888

  Lyder, Andreas ^a   Garcia, Ricardo Franco Mendoza ^a   Stoy, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MODULAR ROBOTICS;

ANIMALS; DEFORMATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MODULAR ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 69549130815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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