Flea inspired catapult mechanism with active energy storage and release for small scale jumping robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 26-31

  Koh, Je Sung ^a   Jung, Sun Pill ^a   Noh, Minkyun ^b   Kim, Seung Won ^a   Cho, Kyu Jin ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STORAGE; COIL SPRING; ELASTIC MATERIALS; EXTENSOR MUSCLES; JUMPING MECHANISMS; JUMPING ROBOT; SMALL SCALE; STIFFNESS CHANGES;

MUSCLE; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84887266964     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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