Crawling by body deformation of tensegrity structure robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4375-4380

  Shibata, Mizuho ^a   Saijyo, Fumio ^a   Hirai, Shinichi ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT CONDITIONS; DESIGN FREEDOM; INITIAL CONTACT; ROBOT BODY; TENSEGRITIES; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE; TOPOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS;

CABLES; DEFORMATION; MACHINE DESIGN; PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70350379377     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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