The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings

2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1503-1508

  Kovač, Mirko ^a   Wassim Hraiz, ^b   Fauria, Oriol ^b   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^b   Floreano, Dario ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; FOLDING MECHANISM; FOLDING WINGS; HYBRID LOCOMOTION; MINIATURE JUMPING ROBOT; MINIATURE ROBOTS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; WING DESIGN;

BIOMIMETICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

RIGID WINGS;

EID: 84860774722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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