Leg stiffness and articulated leg design for dynamic locomotion

ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2002

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 1105-1112

  Schmiedeler, James P ^a   Waldron, Kenneth J ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN VALUE; DYNAMIC RUNNING; KINETOSTATIC ANALYSIS; LEG DESIGN; LEG MECHANISM; LEG STIFFNESS; LEGGED ROBOTS; NON-LINEAR; NONLINEARITIES; NON LINEAR;

DYNAMICS; ROBOTS; STIFFNESS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; MACHINE DESIGN;

MACHINE DESIGN; DESIGN;

EID: 0036979903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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