Motion control of passive intelligent walker using servo brakes

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 981-990

  Hirata, Yasuhisa ^a   Hara, Asami ^a,b   Kosuge, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JTEKT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brake control; Intelligent walker; Passive robotics; Physical interaction; Robot technologies (RTs)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MANEUVERABILITY; MOTION CONTROL; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SERVOMECHANISMS; WALKING AIDS;

BRAKE CONTROL; INTELLIGENT WALKER; PASSIVE ROBOTICS; PHYSICAL INTERACTION; ROBOT TECHNOLOGIES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 35348844048     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.906252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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