Ground fluidization promotes rapid running of a lightweight robot

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 859-869

  Zhang, Tingnan ^a   Qian, Feifei ^a   Li, Chen ^a,b   Masarati, Pierangelo ^c   Hoover, Aaron M ^b,d   Birkmeyer, Paul ^b   Pullin, Andrew ^b   Fearing, Ronald S ^b   Goldman, Daniel I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

bio inspired robot; granular media; legged locomotion

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS; DESIGN AND CONTROL; GRANULAR MEDIA; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; MULTIBODY SIMULATIONS; VARIATION OF PARAMETERS;

ANIMALS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDIZATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); ROBOTS; SUBSTRATES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84875449410     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364913481690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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