The hand-bot, a robot design for simultaneous climbing and manipulation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5928 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 11-22

  Bonani, Michael ^a   Magnenat, Stéphane ^a   Rétornaz, Philippe ^a   Mondada, Francesco ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; GRAVITY FORCES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE OBJECTS; ROBOT DESIGNS; SERVICE ROBOTICS; SINGLE ROBOTS; SMALL ROBOTS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS; ROPE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 76649085873     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10817-4_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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