Adjusting Step Length for Rough Terrain Locomotion

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 289-298

  Hodgins, Jessica K ^a   Raibert, Marc H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTED FORWARD SPEED; DYNAMIC BIPED ROBOT; ROUGH TERRAIN LOCOMOTION; STANCE DURATION METHOD; STEP LENGTH ADJUSTMENT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0026173910     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.88138     Document Type: Article

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