Designing Compliant Spine Mechanisms for Climbing

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Asbeck, Alan T ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; PREMATURE FAILURES; VERTICAL SURFACE;

BUILDING MATERIALS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 84861957202     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.40066591     Document Type: Article

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