Centipede robot for uneven terrain exploration: Design and experiment of the flexible biomimetic robot mechanism

2010 3rd IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 877-881

  Koh, Dooyeol ^a   Yang, Jaemin ^a,b   Kim, Soohyun ^a  

^a Korea Institute of the Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b LS Industrial Systems Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; BIO-MIMETIC ROBOT; CONTACT LOSS; FLEXIBLE BODIES; GAIT MOTIONS; LEG MECHANISM; RIGID BODY; UNEVEN TERRAIN;

BIOMIMETICS; LANDFORMS; MACHINE DESIGN; RIGID STRUCTURES; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78650369243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2010.5627776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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