A new approach to the control of the planar one-legged hopper

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1150-1166

  François, Charles ^a   Samson, Claude ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DESIGN; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MOTION CONTROL; SIMULATION;

CONTROL ACTUATION SETTING; CONTROL DESIGN; PLANAR ONE LEGGED HOPPER;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0032205067     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/027836499801701102     Document Type: Article

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