A controller for the LittleDog quadruped walking on rough terrain

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1467-1473

  Rebula, John R ^a   Neuhaus, Peter D ^a   Bonnlander, Brian V ^a   Johnson, Matthew J ^a   Pratt, Jerry E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GAIT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION;

CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE; QUADRUPEDAL ROBOT; ROUGH TERRAIN; TASK SPECIFIC CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 36348947998     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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