An underwater reconfigurable robot with bioinspired electric sense

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1149-1154

  Mintchev, Stefano ^a   Stefanini, Cesare ^a   Girin, Alexis ^b   Marrazza, Stefano ^a   Orofino, Stefano ^a   Lebastard, Vincent ^b   Manfredi, Luigi ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a   Boyer, Frederic ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCKING; ROBOTICS;

DOCKING SYSTEM; HIGH-ACCURACY; INTER-MODULE; MODULAR ROBOTICS; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; RECONFIGURABLE; SMALL DISPLACEMENT; UNDERWATER RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84864422853     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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