Direct kinematics analysis of crawl gait for a quadruped robot

Jixie Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 8-12

  Chen, Xuedong ^a   Guo, Hongxun ^a   Watanabe, Keigo ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constraints; Direct kinematics; Quadruped robot

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); KINEMATICS; VELOCITY;

CONSTRAINTS; DIRECT KINEMATICS; QUADRUPED ROBOT; SIXTEENTH ORDER POLYNOMIAL EQUATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0041902210     PISSN: 05776686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3901/jme.2003.02.008     Document Type: Article

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