Autonomous undulatory serpentine locomotion utilizing body dynamics of a fluidic soft robot

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Onal, Cagdas D ^a,b   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY DYNAMICS; CONTROL CAPABILITIES; FRICTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN INTERVENTION; POWER SOURCES; SNAKE ROBOTS; SOFT ROBOT; SOFT ROBOTICS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SERPENTINE;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; HARDNESS; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SNAKE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HARDNESS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SNAKES;

EID: 84878317610     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/8/2/026003     Document Type: Article

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