Efficient foot-force distribution algorithm for quadruped walking robots

Robotica

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 403-413

  Zhou, Debao ^a   Low, K H ^a   Zielinska, Teresa ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FORCE CONTROL; FRICTION; GAIT ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; KINEMATICS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

FORCE DISTRIBUTION; FRICTION CONSTRAINT METHOD; QUADRUPED WALKING ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034229512     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574799001824     Document Type: Article

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