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Wheel-legged hexapod robots: a multifunctional mobile manipulating platform

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    Xilun Ding, Yi Zheng & Kun Xu

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Ding, X., Zheng, Y. & Xu, K. Wheel-legged hexapod robots: a multifunctional mobile manipulating platform. Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 30, 3–6 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3901/CJME.2017.0101.002

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