Development of a controllable and continuous jumping robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4614-4619

  Zhao, Jianguo ^a   Xi, Ning ^a   Gao, Bingtuan ^b   Mutka, Matt W ^a   Xiao, Li ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; JUMPING ROBOT; MINIATURE ROBOTS; MOBILE SENSORS; RELEASE MECHANISM; RUGGED TERRAIN; TAKE-OFF ANGLE;

ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84868030911     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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