Introduction of the foot placement estimator: A dynamic measure of balance for bipedal robotics

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wight, Derek L ^a   Kubica, Eric G ^a   Wang, David W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ESTIMATION; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

BALANCE (WEIGHTING); EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; GAIT CYCLES; GAIT INITIATION; LINEAR CONTROLLERS; REALISTIC SIMULATIONS; ROBOTICS RESEARCH; STABILITY RESULTS; STATE MACHINES; UNBALANCED SYSTEMS; UNDER CONSTRUCTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 47249150064     PISSN: 15551423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2815334     Document Type: Article

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