Humanitarian mine detecting six-legged walking robot and hybrid neuro walking control with position/force control

Mechatronics

Volumn 13, Issue 8-9 SPEC., 2003, Pages 773-790

  Huang, Qing Jiu ^a   Nonami, Kenzo ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Humanitarian deming; Hybrid neuro control with position force control; Mine detecting and avoiding autonomous walking; Mine detection; Six legged walking robot; Unstructured terrain walking

Indexed keywords

FORCE CONTROL; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MINE DETECTION;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 0038348344     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4158(03)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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