Development of leg-wheel hybrid quadruped "AirHopper": Design of powerful light-weight leg with wheel

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3890-3895

  Tanaka, Takahiro ^a   Hirose, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AirHopper; Jumping robot; Leg wheel hybrid; Pneumatic actuator

Indexed keywords

AIRHOPPER; BAR LINKAGES; CYLINDER PRESSURES; DISASTER AREAS; HIGH MOBILITY; JUMPING ROBOT; LEG MECHANISM; LEG-WHEEL HYBRID; LIGHT WEIGHT; PNEUMATIC ACTUATOR; PNEUMATIC CYLINDERS; UNEVEN TERRAIN; WHEEL MECHANISM;

ACTUATORS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; PNEUMATICS; WHEELS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 69549134155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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