Dynamic rolling locomotion and control of modular robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-41

  Lee, Woo Ho ^a   Sanderson, Arthur C ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Dynamic rolling; Locomotion planning; Modular robotics; Reconfigurable parallel robotics; Tipping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; REDUNDANCY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

DYNAMIC ROLLING; LOCOMOTION PLANNING; RECONFIGURABLE PARALLEL ROBOTICS; TIPPING;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0036476741     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.988972     Document Type: Article

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