MEDIC: A legged millirobot utilizing novel obstacle traversal

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 802-808

  Kohut, Nicholas J ^a   Hoover, Aaron M ^a   Ma, Kevin Y ^b   Baek, Stanley S ^c   Fearing, Ronald S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGGED ROBOTS; SMART COMPOSITES;

ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84871699738     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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