Generating continuous free crab gaits for quadruped robots on irregular terrain

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1067-1076

  Estremera, Joaquin ^a   de Santos, Pablo Gonzalez ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forbidden area; Free gait; Legged locomotion; Terrain adaptation; Trajectory tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; GAIT ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; STABILITY;

FORBIDDEN AREA; FREE GAIT; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; TERRAIN ADAPTATION; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 29844457264     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2005.852256     Document Type: Article

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