Turning gaits and optimal undulatory gaits for a modular centipede-inspired millirobot

Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1052-1059

  Hoffman, Katie L ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUTY CYCLES; FLEXIBLE BODIES; REDUCED COST; TURNING EXPERIMENTS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84867410308     PISSN: 21551774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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