Self-folding and self-actuating robots: A pneumatic approach

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2015-June, Issue June, 2015, Pages 3160-3165

  Sun, Xu ^a   Felton, Samuel M ^b   Niiyama, Ryuma ^c   Wood, Robert J ^b   Kim, Sangbae ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; PNEUMATICS; ROBOTICS;

DESIRED ANGLES; PNEUMATIC SYSTEM; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; ROBOTIC STRUCTURES; SELF ACTUATING; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SELF-ASSEMBLING ROBOTS; SHAPE CHANGE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84938236594     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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