Biologically-inspired locomotion of a 2g hexapod robot

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5360-5365

  Baisch, Andrew T ^a   Sreetharan, Pratheev S ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; HEXAPOD ROBOTS; MECHANICAL LINKAGES; MESOSCALE; SMART COMPOSITES; TRIPOD GAIT;

FABRICATION; MACHINE DESIGN;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651503625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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