A simple legged locomotion gait model

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-85

  Venkataraman, S T ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gait model; Legged robots; Neural pathways

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GAIT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SERVOMECHANISMS;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; GAIT MODEL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031276962     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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