Mowgli: A bipedal jumping and landing robot with an artificial musculoskeletal system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2546-2551

  Niiyama, Ryuma ^a   Nagakubo, Akihiko ^b   Kuniyoshi, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; BIPEDAL JUMPING; MOWGLI; VERTICAL JUMPING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 36349023755     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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