Water dancer II-A: A non-tethered telecontrollable water strider robot

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 10-17

  Wu, Licheng ^a   Lian, Zhipeng ^b   Yang, Guosheng ^a   Ceccarelli, Marco ^c  

^a MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bionics; Fluid Mechanics; Micro robot; Robot Design; Water Strider Robots

Indexed keywords

BIONICS; DC MOTORS; FLUID MECHANICS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; BIOMIMETICS;

INFRARED SIGNAL; LIFTING FORCES; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MICRO ROBOTS; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; ROBOT DESIGNS; SPEED REGULATION; WATER STRIDERS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 80052482223     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/45704     Document Type: Article

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