Speed, efficiency, and stability of small-slope 2D passive dynamic bipedal walking

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 2351-2356

  Garcia, Mariano ^a   Chatterjee, Anindya ^b   Ruina, Andy ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Chaos; Energy measurement; Foot; Humans; Leg; Legged locomotion; Stability; Thigh; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CHAOS THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ROBOTICS; TRANSPORTATION; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; SPEED; SYSTEM STABILITY;

EFFICIENT WALKING; FOOT; HUMANS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; PASSIVE DYNAMIC WALKING; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; PERIOD DOUBLING ROUTE TO CHAOS; THIGH;

SLOPE STABILITY; MOBILE ROBOTS;

PASSIVE DYNAMIC BIPEDAL WALKING;

EID: 0031625957     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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