Postural stability of a human riding a unicycle and its emulation by a robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 709-720

  Sheng, Zaiquan ^a   Yamafuji, Kazuo ^b  

^a Sakura Endress Company Ltd   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Closed link mechanism; Dynamics; Gyrosensors; Nonlinear system; Postural stability; Three dimensional (3 D); Unicycle

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLOSED LINK MECHANISM; GYROSENSORS; HUMAN RIDING; POSTURAL STABILITY; UNICYCLE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0031257905     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.631232     Document Type: Article

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