Analysis and Control of a Gait of Snake Robot

IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 372-381

  Prautsch, Pavel ^a   Mita, Tsutomu ^a   Iwasaki, Tetsuya ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lyapunov method; nonholonomic system; snake robot; variable constraint control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983784716     PISSN: 09136339     EISSN: 13488163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejias.120.372     Document Type: Article

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