DASH: A dynamic 16g hexapedal robot

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2683-2689

  Birkmeyer, P ^a   Peterson, K ^a   Fearing, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT-SPEED; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; DRIVE MOTORS; HEXAPEDAL ROBOTS; HIGH POWER DENSITY; KINEMATIC DESIGNS; OPEN LOOPS; SMART COMPOSITES; SPRING LOADED INVERTED PENDULUMS; TRIPOD GAIT;

BIOMECHANICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 76249133574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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