Gait optimization for a multilink anguilliform swimmer

Hyper-redundant mechanisms (HRMs), also known as snake-like robots, have been the target of a small but focused research push over the past four decades. Consisting of a simple kinematic chain with a large number of redundant degrees of freedom (DoF), they can act manipulators approximating the form...

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Main Author: Wiens, Alexander
Other Authors: Meyer Nahon (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2013
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114571