Real-time kinematics on the translational crawl motion of a quadruped robot

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-131

  Chen, Xuedong ^a   Watanabe, Keigo ^a   Kiguchi, Kazuo ^a   Izumi, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

CRAWL VELOCITY; JOINT POSITION; JOINT VELOCITY; QUADRUPED ROBOT; REAL TIME KINEMATICS; TRANSLATIONAL CRAWL GAIT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034299799     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008186026952     Document Type: Article

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