Towards a self-deploying and gliding robot

Flying Insects and Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 271-284

  Kovač, Mirko ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84895203157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89393-6_19     Document Type: Chapter

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