Rapid inversion: Running animals and robots swing like a pendulum under ledges

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Mongeau, Jean Michel ^a   McRae, Brian ^b   Jusufi, Ardian ^a   Birkmeyer, Paul ^c   Hoover, Aaron M ^d   Fearing, Ronald ^c   Full, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GECKO; KINEMATICS; LIZARD; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PENDULUM LIKE MOTION; POSITION; PREDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPID INVERSION BEHAVIOR; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; RUNNING; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; COCKROACHES; ESCAPE REACTION; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; ROBOTICS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84862001933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038003     Document Type: Article

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