Study of flea jumping mechanism for biomimetic robot design

Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-52

  Buksh, Sheikh Rashed ^a   Chen, XiaoQi ^a   Wang, Wenhui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Control; Coxa; Femur; Modeling; Resilin; Robotics; Simulation; Trochanter

Indexed keywords

BIO-MIMETIC ROBOT; BODY SIZES; COXA; MODELING AND SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78651539530     PISSN: 18809863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jbse.5.41     Document Type: Article

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