On the improvement of walking performance in natural environments by a compliant adaptive gait

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1240-1253

  Garcia, Elena ^a   Gonzalez de Santos, Pablo ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compliance control; Gait adaptation; Legged locomotion; Stability criteria

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; GAIT ANALYSIS; MOTION CONTROL; STABILITY CRITERIA;

COMPLIANCE CONTROL; GAIT ADAPTATION; LEGGED LOCOMOTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845515272     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.884343     Document Type: Article

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