Development of novel robots with modular methodology

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2385-2390

  Guan, Yisheng ^a   Jiang, Li ^a   Zhangt, Xianmin ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a,b   Zhou, Xuefeng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPED WALKING ROBOTS; CLIMBING ROBOTS; FUNCTIONAL MODULES; LOW COSTS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SNAKE-LIKE ROBOT; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 76249083486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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