Bio-inspired design and dynamic maneuverability of a minimally actuated six-legged robot

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 869-876

  Hoover, Aaron M ^a   Burden, Samuel ^b   Fu, Xiao Yu ^c   Sastry, S Shankar ^b   Fearing, R S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HEXAPEDAL ROBOTS; LEG DESIGN; LEG STIFFNESS; PARALLEL KINEMATICS; ROBOT DESIGNS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY; SIX-LEGGED ROBOTS; SMART COMPOSITES; STIFFNESS CONTROL; TURNING MANEUVERS; UNDERACTUATED; VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS;

ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STIFFNESS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78650384135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2010.5626034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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