The Modular Snake Robot Open Project: Turning animal functions into engineering tools

2013 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Melo, Kamilo ^a   Leon, Juan ^a   Di Zeo, Alvaro ^a   Rueda, Vanesa ^a   Roa, Diego ^a   Parraga, Manuel ^a   Gonzalez, Daniel ^a   Paez, Laura ^a  

^a KM RoBoTa   (Colombia)

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EID: 84894188318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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