Determining the influence of muscle operating length on muscle performance during frog swimming using a bio-robotic model

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Clemente, Christofer J ^a   Richards, Christopher ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANIDAE; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANIDAE; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING;

EID: 84863632768     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/7/3/036018     Document Type: Article

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