Shifting allometry: Combination of macroscopic engineering with microscopic biomimetics allows realization of new robot functions in meso dimension

7th German Conference on Robotics, ROBOTIK 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 165-170

  Fremerey, Max ^a   Gorb, Stanislav ^b   Heepe, Lars ^b   Kasper, Dominik ^a   Maempel, Joerg ^a,c   Witte, Hartmut ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c Tetra Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIOLOGY; BIOMIMETICS; GRAVITATION; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TURING MACHINES;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; CONSTRUCTION APPROACHES; LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTIONS; MACHINE ELEMENT; NEW FUNCTIONS; ROBOT FUNCTIONS; SURFACE FORCES; VOLUMETRIC FORCES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84903991835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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