Passive control of attachment in legged space robots

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-81

  Gasparetto, Alessandro ^a   Vidoni, Renato ^a   Seidl, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Kinematics; Locomotion; Multi body; Spider

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BIPED LOCOMOTION; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE STATIONS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; KINEMATIC MODEL; LOW-PRESSURE CONDITIONS; MECHANICAL INTERLOCKING; MULTI-BODY; PASSIVE CONTROL; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SPIDER;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 77649087978     PISSN: 11762322     EISSN: 17542103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11762320902940219     Document Type: Article

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