Analysis and visualization of the contact force solution space for multi-limbed mobile robots with three feet contact

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2 B, Issue , 2003, Pages 1239-1248

  Hong, Dennis W ^a   Cipra, Raymond J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact force solution; Force space graph; Friction; Multi contact force distribution; Multi limbed robots; Solution volume representation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FORCE CONTROL; FRICTION; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VISUALIZATION;

CONTACT FORCE SOLUTION; FORCE SPACE GRAPH; MULTI-CONTACT FORCE DISTRIBUTION; MULTI-LIMBED ROBOTS; SOLUTION VOLUME REPRESENTATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 1842811999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dac-48836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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