Design and philosophy of the BiMASC, a highly dynamic biped

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1863-1868

  Hurst, Jonathan W ^a   Chestnutt, Joel E ^a   Rizzi, Alfred A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC WALKING; MODEL-BASED CONTROL; NATURAL DYNAMICS; ROBOT'S BEHAVIOR;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 36348968280     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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