Undulatory and pedundulatory robotic locomotion via direct and retrograde body waves

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3457-3463

  Sfakiotakis, Michael ^a,b   Tsakiris, Dimitris P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomimetic robotics; Centipedes; Eels; Motion control; Polychaete annelids; Snakes; Undulatory locomotion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIOMIMETICS; FRICTION; ROBOTICS; SUBSTRATES;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; FRICTIONAL INTERFACE; LOCOMOTION PRINCIPLES; MODES OF LOCOMOTION; ROBOTIC LOCOMOTIONS; ROBOTIC MECHANISMS; SUBSTRATE CONTACT; UNDULATORY LOCOMOTION;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

EID: 78650355331     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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