Systematic study of the performance of small robots on controlled laboratory substrates

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7679, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Li, Chen ^a   Hoover, Aaron M ^b   Birkmeyer, Paul ^b   Umbanhowar, Paul B ^c   Fearing, Ronald S ^b   Goldman, Daniel I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

cost of transport; granular media; ground modeling; hard ground; Legged locomotion; robot design

Indexed keywords

GRANULAR MEDIA; GROUND MODELING; HARD GROUND; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; ROBOT DESIGN;

COSTS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LANDFORMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 79953739052     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.851047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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