Attitude and position control method for realistic legged vehicles

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 345-354

  Jimenez, M A ^a   Gonzalez De Santos, P ^a  

^a Institute of Physical and Information Technologies   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitude control; Flexion; Gait; Legged locomotion; Position control

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; GAIT ANALYSIS; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTS; SENSORS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; FLEXION; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; REALISTIC LEGGED VEHICLES;

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 0030214910     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8890(95)00090-9     Document Type: Article

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