A miniature jumping robot with self-recovery capabilities

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 583-588

  Kovač, Mirko ^a   Schlegel, Manuel ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGING STATE; CONTROL UNIT; CURRENT CONFIGURATION; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; JUMPING ROBOT; MINIATURE JUMPING ROBOT; ROUGH TERRAINS; SELF-RECOVERY; TAKE-OFF ANGLE;

ANIMALS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

LANDING;

EID: 76249113948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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