Principles of appendage design in robots and animals determining terradynamic performance on flowable ground

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Qian, Feifei ^a   Zhang, Tingnan ^b   Korff, Wyatt ^c   Umbanhowar, Paul B ^d   Full, Robert J ^c   Goldman, Daniel I ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

granular media; legged locomotion; low resistance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; ROBOTS; ROCK MECHANICS; SUBSTRATES;

GRANULAR MEDIA; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; LOW RESISTANCE; NATURAL SUBSTRATES; PENETRATION FORCES; PENETRATION RATIO; PENETRATION RESISTANCES; RESISTIVE FORCE THEORY;

MACHINE DESIGN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; GAIT; LIMB; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXTREMITIES; GAIT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; RHEOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84944754780     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/10/5/056014     Document Type: Article

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