Design, control, and energetics of an electrically actuated legged robot

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 626-634

  Gregorio, Pedro ^b   Ahmadi, Mojtaba ^c   Buehler, Martin ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Solutions by Design   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTED RAIBERT CONTROL LAW; ELECTRICALLY ACTUATED LEGGED ROBOT; TRI PARTITIONED DECOUPLED CONTROL;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031209812     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.604106     Document Type: Article

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