Design and analysis of a soft mobile robot composed of multiple thermally activated joints driven by a single actuator

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5207-5212

  Cheng, Nadia ^a   Ishigami, Genya ^a   Hawthorne, Stephan ^a   Chen, Hao ^b   Hansen, Malik ^c   Telleria, Maria ^a   Playter, Robert ^c   Iagnemma, Karl ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Boston Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; ANISOTROPIC FRICTION; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; INCHWORM-LIKE; LOCKING MECHANISM; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; REDUCING SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SECURITY APPLICATION; SINGLE ACTUATORS; STEERING MOTION; THERMALLY ACTIVATED; UNDER-ACTUATED SYSTEMS;

ACTUATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77955806258     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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