Steerable miniature jumping robot

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-306

  Kovač, Mirko ^a   Schlegel, Manuel ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioinspired locomotion; Jumping robots; Mobile robot; Space robotics

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS; ENERGETIC COSTS; FABRICATION METHOD; JUMPING ROBOT; JUMPING ROBOTS; MINIATURE JUMPING ROBOT; ROUGH TERRAINS; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL SYSTEMS; SPACE ROBOTICS; SPHERICAL ROBOTS; TAKE-OFF ANGLE;

ANIMALS; CURRICULA; LANDING; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77952096302     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-009-9173-4     Document Type: Article

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