How to keep from falling forward: Elementary swing leg action for passive dynamic walkers

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 393-401

  Wisse, Martijn ^a   Schwab, Arend L ^a   van der Linde, Richard Q ^a,b   van der Helm, Frans C T ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ALTRAN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Legged locomotion; Passive dynamic walking; Reflex; Swing leg control

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; SYSTEM STABILITY;

LEGGED LOCOMOTION; PASSIVE DYNAMIC WALKING; SWING LEG CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 19344378025     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.838030     Document Type: Article

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