Jumping mini-robot with bio-inspired legs

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 933-938

  Li, Fei ^a   Bonsignori, Gabriella ^b   Scarfogliero, Umberto ^b,c   Chen, Dajing ^b   Stefanini, Cesare ^b   Liu, Weiting ^a,b   Dario, Paolo ^b   Fu, Xin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bionic legs; Insect legs; Jumping robot; Segment gear

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; BIONICS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; ROBOTICS;

BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; BIONIC LEG; CENTIMETER-SCALE; CONSTANT FORCE; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; INSECT LEGS; JUMPING ROBOT; OPTIMUM DESIGNS;

BIOMIMETICS;

EID: 70349183438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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