A planar hopping robot with one actuator: Design, simulation, and experimental results

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3540-3545

  Sato, Akihiro ^a   Buehler, Martin ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Boston Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

Hopping robot; One legged; SLIP; Unactuated

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTS; SPEED CONTROL;

HOPPING ROBOT; ONE-LEGGED; SPRING LOADED INVERTED PENDULUM (SLIP); UNACTUATED;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 14044250245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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