SheetBot: A magic carpet that enables scaffold-based locomotion

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1434-1439

  Kano, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Yuki ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; CONTROL SCHEMES; SHEET-LIKE; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; WORKING AREAS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SCAFFOLDS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 84872343383     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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