Building an energetic model to evaluate and optimize power consumption in walking robots

Industrial Robot

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-208

  Guardabrazo, T A ^a   Gonzalez de Santos, P ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Modelling; Optimization techniques; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FRICTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; VECTORS;

OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; WALKING ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 1542273566     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910410522874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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