Walking and running on yielding and fluidizing ground

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 345-352

  Qian, Feifei ^a   Zhang, Tingnan ^a   Li, Chen ^a   Masarati, Pierangelo ^d   Hoover, Aaron M ^c   Birkmeyer, Paul ^b   Pullin, Andrew ^b   Fearing, Ronald S ^b   Goldman, Daniel I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bio Inspired Robot; Granular Media; Legged Locomotion; Lightweight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959295985     PISSN: 23307668     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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