Active leg compliance for passive walking

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 2339-2344

  Van Der Linde, Richard Quint ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actuators; Frequency; Gravity; Hip; Leg; Legged locomotion; Mechanical systems; Protection; Robots; Springs

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; GRAVITATION; HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DAMPING; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING;

FREQUENCY; GROUND COLLISIONS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PROTECTION; REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY; VELOCITY CHANGES; VISCOUS DAMPING;

BALLISTICS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ACTIVE LEG COMPLIANCE; BALLISTIC WALKING;

EID: 0031626419     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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