Scarabaeus: A walking robot applicable to sample return missions

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 33 CCIS, Issue , 2009, Pages 128-133

  Bartsch, Sebastian ^a   Planthaber, Steffen ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF MOBILITY; SAMPLE RETURN; SIX-LEGGED ROBOTS; SPACE MISSIONS; WALKING ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 78049353329     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03558-6_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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