Controlled passive dynamic running experiments with the ARL-Monopod II

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 974-986

  Ahmadi, Mojtaba ^a,b   Buehler, Martin ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Boston Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Legged robot; Monopod; Passive dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

LEGGED ROBOT; MONOPOD; PASSIVE DYNAMICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33750206792     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.878935     Document Type: Article

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