Bio-inspired mechanisms for inclined locomotion in a legged insect-scale robot

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 791-796

  Seitz, Benedikt F ^a   Goldberg, Benjamin ^a   Doshi, Neel ^a   Ozcan, Onur ^a   Christensen, David L ^b   Hawkes, Elliot W ^b   Cutkosky, Mark R ^b   Wood, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BIOMIMETICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ADHESION METHOD; ATTACHMENT AND DETACHMENTS; ATTACHMENT MECHANISM; CLIMBING MECHANISM; FORCE GENERATION; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; LEGGED ROBOTS; MICROMETER SCALE;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84949927559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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