A water walking robot inspired by water strider

2012 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 962-967

  Zhao, Jie ^a   Zhang, Xinbin ^a   Pan, Qinmin ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

mechanics analysis model; rowing on water; spring based actuating mechanism; water strider; Water walking robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATING MECHANISMS; AVERAGE SPEED; DRIVING FORCES; FORCE ANALYSIS; MECHANICS ANALYSIS; NICKEL FOAM; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; WALKING ROBOTS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER STRIDERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPORTS; WATER QUALITY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84867587246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2012.6283380     Document Type: Conference Paper

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