SheetBot: Two-dimensional sheet-like robot as a tool for constructing universal decentralized control systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3733-3738

  Kano, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Yuki ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DESIGN; SCAFFOLDS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADAPTIVE LOCOMOTION; AUTONOMOUS DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; CONTINUUM MODELING; IRREGULAR TERRAIN; ITS APPLICATIONS; LARGE SURFACE AREA; UNIVERSAL DESIGN;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 84864422889     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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