Automatic Body Regulation for Maintaining Stability of a Legged Vehicle During Rough-Terrain Locomotion

IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 132-141

  Messuri, Dominic A ^a   Klein, Charles A ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTS, INDUSTRIAL - MOBILE;

LEGGED LOCOMOTION; ROUGH TERRAINS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 0022114961     PISSN: 08824967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JRA.1985.1087012     Document Type: Article

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