Variational analysis of snakelike robots

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 57 LNEE, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-91

  Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES; CONCENTRIC TUBE; CONTINUUM ROBOT; ELASTIC MECHANICS; EQUILIBRIUM CONFORMATION; EULER-LAGRANGE; HYPER-REDUNDANT MANIPULATOR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; NATURAL TOOLS; NEEDLE-TISSUE INTERACTION; NEW APPLICATIONS; NONHOLONOMICS; POINCARE; REDUNDANCY RESOLUTION; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SNAKE-LIKE ROBOT; TASK SPACE; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

MECHANICS; NEEDLES; REDUNDANCY; REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84868360159     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33971-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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