Local information transfer in soft robotic arm

2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1273-1280

  Nakajima, Kohei ^a   Li, Tao ^a   Kang, Rongjie ^b   Guglielmino, Emanuele ^b   Caldwell, Darwin G ^b   Pfeifer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE SPREADING; DYNAMIC COUPLINGS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH; LOCAL INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMIMETICS; INFORMATION THEORY; ROBOTIC ARMS; SILICONES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84876504107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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