Introducing the hex-a-ball, a hybrid locomotion terrain adaptive walking and rolling Robot

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, CLAWAR 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 525-532

  Phipps, C C ^a   Minor, M A ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

hybrid walking rolling spherical robot

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS);

ADAPTIVE WALKING; HEXAPOD ROBOTS; HYBRID LOCOMOTION; LOCOMOTION STRATEGIES; MECHANICAL DESIGN; ROLLING ROBOTS; SPHERICAL ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84881128634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26415-9_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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