GoQBot: A caterpillar-inspired soft-bodied rolling robot

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Lin, Huai Ti ^a   Leisk, Gary G ^b   Trimmer, Barry ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LEPIDOPTERA; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LEPIDOPTERA; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROBOTICS;

EID: 79958131392     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/6/2/026007     Document Type: Article

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