Stair descent in the simple hexapod 'RHex'

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1380-1385

  Campbell, D ^a   Buehler, M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hexapod; Legged locomotion; RHex; Stair descent

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MOTION CONTROL; POSITION CONTROL;

CLOCK DRIVEN CONTROLLERS; HEXAPOD ROBOT; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; STAIR DESCENT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344876455     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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