Stable running in a quadruped robot with compliant legs

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 444-449

  Papadopoulos, Didier ^a   Buehler, Martin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT LEGS; OPEN LOOP CONTROL; PASSIVE COMPLIANT PRISMATIC JOINT; QUADRUPED ROBOT; VIRTUAL LEG;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GAIT ANALYSIS; MACHINE DESIGN; MOTION CONTROL; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033708356     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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