Use of Active Compliance in the Control of Legged Vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Volumn SMC-10, Issue 7, 1980, Pages 393-400

  Klein, Charles A ^a   Briggs, Randal L ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGGED VEHICLES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 0019037947     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1980.4308520     Document Type: Article

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