Design and gait control of a rollerblading robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3944-3949

  Chitta, Sachin ^a   Heger, Frederik W ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FRICTION; GAIT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; TRACKING (POSITION);

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; GAIT CONTROL; NONHOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; ROLLERBLADING ROBOT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042625303     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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