Design and control of tensegrity robots for locomotion

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 944-957

  Paul, Chandana ^a   Valero Cuevas, Francisco J ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Locomotion; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DYNAMIC GAITS; FORWARD LOCOMOTION; STATIC GAITS; TENSEGRITY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33750209536     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.878980     Document Type: Article

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