Self-stabilizing somersaults

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1148-1157

  Mombaur, Katja D ^a   Bock, Hans Georg ^a   Schlöder, Johannes P ^a   Longman, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gymnastics simulation; Open loop stable motions; Periodic somersault motion; Running robot; Stability optimization

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; DAMPING; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

GYMNASTIC SIMULATION; OPEN-LOOP STABLE MOTIONS; PERIODIC SOMERSAULT MOTION; RUNNING ROBOT; STABILITY OPTIMIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 29844445044     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2005.855990     Document Type: Article

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