Achieving periodic leg trajectories to evolve a quadruped gallop

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 3842-3848

  Krasny, Darren P ^a   Orin, David E ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GAIT ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY; SPEED CONTROL;

HIGH SPEED DYNAMIC RUNNING GAIT; PERIODIC LEG TRAJECTORY; QUADRUPED GALLOP; SET BASED STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0344033716     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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