Salamandra Robotica II: An amphibious robot to study salamander-like swimming and walking gaits

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 308-320

  Crespi, Alessandro ^a   Karakasiliotis, Konstantinos ^a   Guignard, Andre ^a   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amphibious salamander robots; legged locomotion; mobile robots; robot kinematics

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIOUS ROBOT; BODY OSCILLATIONS; GAIT PARAMETERS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; RELATIVE SPEED; ROBOT HARDWARE; ROBOT KINEMATICS; TURNING MOTION;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84876141255     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2012.2234311     Document Type: Article

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