Directionally compliant legs influence the intrinsic pitch behaviour of a trotting quadruped

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1563, 2005, Pages 567-572

  Lee, David V ^a,c   Meek, Sanford G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground reaction force; Locomotion; Pitch; Running; Simulation

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW; FEMUR; HUMERUS; JOINT EXAMINATION; KNEE; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STANDING; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREMITIES; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 23244446186     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3014     Document Type: Article

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