A novel concept for building a hyper-redundant chain robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1237-1248

  Ning, Kejun ^a   Wörgötter, Florentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyper redundant robot; Mechanism design; Robotics; Wire driven

Indexed keywords

BASE MODULE; CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; HYPER REDUNDANT; HYPER-REDUNDANT ROBOT; KEY COMPONENT; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NOVEL CONCEPT; NOVEL DESIGN; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; WIRE-DRIVEN;

REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIRE;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 72149092943     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2032968     Document Type: Article

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