Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion in Small Robots: Natural Observation, Design, Experiments

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 54, Issue , 2009, Pages 329-338

  Scarfogliero, Umberto ^a   Bonsignori, G ^a   Stefanini, Cesare ^a,b   Sinibaldi, E ^a   Li, F ^a   Chen, D ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a,b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; CONSTANT FORCE; JUMPING LOCOMOTIONS; LEGGED ROBOTS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMALITY; SMALL ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78650431597     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00196-3_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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