A bio-robotic platform for integrating internal and external mechanics during muscle-powered swimming

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Richards, Christopher T ^a   Clemente, Christofer J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84857519635     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/7/1/016010     Document Type: Article

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