A robust quadruped walking gait for traversing rough terrain

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1474-1479

  Pongas, Dimitris ^a   Mistry, Michael ^a   Schaal, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

COG trajectory; Crawl gait; Internal model control; Quadruped locomotion; Rough terrain; Static walk

Indexed keywords

COG TRAJECTORY; CRAWL GAIT; INTERNAL-MODEL CONTROL; QUADRUPED LOCOMOTION; ROBUST QUADRUPED WALKING GAIT; ROUGH TERRAIN; STATIC WALK;

ALGORITHMS; MOTION PLANNING; PARAMETERIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBUST CONTROL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 36348994309     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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