Righting and turning in mid-air using appendage inertia: Reptile tails, analytical models and bio-inspired robots

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Jusufi, A ^a   Kawano, D T ^b   Libby, T ^a   Full, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS; BODY ORIENTATION; BODY ROLLS; FALLING CAT; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ORTHOGONAL PLANE;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; ATTITUDE CONTROL;

MODELS;

HEMIDACTYLUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLYING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIZARD; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TAIL;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROBOTICS; TAIL;

EID: 78649706966     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/4/045001     Document Type: Article

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