Efficient worm-like locomotion: Slip and control of soft-bodied peristaltic robots

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Daltorio, Kathryn A ^a   Boxerbaum, Alexander S ^b   Horchler, Andrew D ^a   Shaw, Kendrick M ^c   Chiel, Hillel J ^c   Quinn, Roger D ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAN DESIGN; CONTACT FORCES; COULOMB FRICTIONS; RADIALLY SYMMETRIC; SINE-WAVE; WORM-LIKE LOCOMOTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANIMAL; ANNELID; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; GAIT; HARDNESS; LOCOMOTION; PERISTALSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; GAIT; HARDNESS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERISTALSIS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84880753698     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/8/3/035003     Document Type: Article

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