Concept evaluation of a new biologically inspired robot "LittleApe"

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 589-594

  Kühn, Daniel ^a   Römmermann, Malte ^a   Sauthoff, Nina ^a   Grimminger, Felix ^a   Kirchner, Frank ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODELS; BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTS; CENTRE OF MASS; CONCEPT EVALUATION; EVOLUTIONARY METHOD; FOUR-LEG; MANOEUVRABILITY; RANGE OF MOTIONS; SMALL OBJECTS; SPINAL COLUMN; WALKING PATTERN;

TANKERS (SHIPS);

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 76249131465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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