The bow leg hopping robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 781-786

  Brown, B ^a   Zeglin, G ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; BATTERY PACK; BODY ATTITUDES; ELASTIC ENERGY; HIGHLY RESILIENT; HOPPING ROBOTS; PLANNING SCHEME; STEPPING STONE;

ROBOTICS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ACTUATORS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; TORQUE;

BOW LEG HOPPING ROBOT;

EID: 0031640242     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.677072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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