A review on locomotion robophysics: The study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Aguilar, Jeffrey ^a   Zhang, Tingnan ^a   Qian, Feifei ^a   Kingsbury, Mark ^a   McInroe, Benjamin ^a   Mazouchova, Nicole ^a   Li, Chen ^a   Maladen, Ryan ^a   Gong, Chaohui ^a   Travers, Matt ^a   Hatton, Ross L ^a   Choset, Howie ^a   Umbanhowar, Paul B ^a   Goldman, Daniel I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamical systems; robotics; soft matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994017973     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/79/11/110001     Document Type: Review

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