Intelligent Control of Quadruped Gallops

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 446-456

  Marhefka, Duane W ^a   Orin, David E ^a   Schmiedeier, James P ^a   Waldron, Kenneth J ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy control; Gallop; Intelligent control; Legged vehicles

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTS; VEHICLES;

FUZZY SYSTEMS; LEGGED VEHICLES; NONLINEAR MAPPINGS;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 0347131088     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2003.820001     Document Type: Article

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