Joint Positions and Robot Stability of the Omnidirectional Crawling Quadruped Robot

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 510-517

  Chen, Xuedong ^a   Watanabe, Keigo ^a   Izumi, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Joint position; Quadruped robot; Robot stability; Statically stable area

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

FOOT PLACEMENTS; JOINT POSITION; KINEMATIC CHAIN; NEW APPROACHES; POSITION STABILITY; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; ROBOT KINEMATICS; ROBOT SELECTION; ROBOT STABILITY; STATICALLY STABLE AREA;

STABILITY;

EID: 0000729178     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.1999.p0510     Document Type: Article

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