JSEL: Jamming skin enabled locomotion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5672-5677

  Steltz, E ^a   Mozeika, A ^a   Rodenberg, N ^b   Brown, E ^b   Jaeger, H M ^b  

^a IROBOT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MORPHING; ROUGH TERRAINS; SMALL HOLE; SOFT ROBOT;

ACTUATORS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; JAMMING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 76249127138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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