The Kinematics of Motion Planning for Multilegged Vehicles Over Uneven Terrain

IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 204-212

  Lee, Wha Joon ^a   Orin, David E ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ADAPTIVE SUSPENSION VEHICLE (ASV); BODY MOTION PLANNING; MULTILEGGED VEHICLES; TERRAIN/VEHICLE MODELS; UNEVEN-TERRAIN LOCOMOTION;

VEHICLES;

EID: 0023999611     PISSN: 08824967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/56.2084     Document Type: Article

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