Intuitive control of a planar bipedal walking robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 2014-2021

  Pratt, Jerry ^a   Pratt, Gill ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control systems; Energy efficiency; Foot; Laboratories; Leg; Legged locomotion; Robot control; Springs; Stability; Velocity control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LABORATORIES; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); VELOCITY CONTROL; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MOTION CONTROL; SYSTEM STABILITY;

BIPEDAL WALKING ROBOT; FOOT; INTUITIVE CONTROL STRATEGY; INTUITIVE CONTROLS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; PLANAR BIPEDAL ROBOT; PLANAR BIPEDAL WALKING; ROBOT CONTROLS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; MOBILE ROBOTS;

BIPEDAL WALKING ROBOTS; INTUITIVE CONTROL;

EID: 0031626097     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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