Experimental investigation of obstacle-aided locomotion with a snake robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 792-800

  Liljebäck, Pål ^a,b   Pettersen, Kristin Y ^a   Stavdahl, Øyvind ^a   Gravdahl, Jan Tommy ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

Author keywords

Contact modeling; force and tactile sensing; snake robot; underactuated robots

Indexed keywords

CONTACT MODELING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FORWARD PROPULSION; SNAKE ROBOT; SNAKE ROBOTS; TACTILE SENSING; UNDERACTUATED ROBOT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 80051692014     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2134150     Document Type: Article

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