Snake Robots Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impo

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Pål Liljebäck r Kristin Y. Pettersen r Øyvind Stavdahl r Jan Tommy Gravdahl

Snake Robots Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control

Pål Liljebäck Applied Cybernetics SINTEF ICT Trondheim, Norway and Department of Engineering Cybernetics Norwegian University of Science & Technology Trondheim, Norway Kristin Y. Pettersen Department of Engineering Cybernetics Norwegian University of Science & Technology Trondheim, Norway

Øyvind Stavdahl Department of Engineering Cybernetics Norwegian University of Science & Technology Trondheim, Norway Jan Tommy Gravdahl Department of Engineering Cybernetics Norwegian University of Science & Technology Trondheim, Norway

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