Toward a human-like biped robot with compliant legs

Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9, IAS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 820-827

  Iida, Fumiya ^a,b   Minekawa, Yohei ^a   Rummel, Juergen ^a   Seyfarth, Andre ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biped walking; Legged locomotion; Passive dynamic walking

Indexed keywords

BIPED ROBOT; BIPED WALKING; BIPEDAL WALKING; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; ELASTIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES; GROUND REACTION FORCES; HUMAN WALKING; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; PASSIVE DYNAMIC WALKING; PASSIVE JOINTS; RIGID BODY; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOPHYSICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 34547190886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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