Jumping mini-robot as a model of scale effects on legged locomotion

2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 853-858

  Scarfogliero, Umberto ^a   Li, Fei ^b   Chen, Dajing ^b   Stefanini, Cesare ^c   Liu, Weiting ^a,b,c,d   Dario, Paolo ^a,c  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; ROBOTICS;

BIO-INSPIRED; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; LEGGED ROBOTS; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ROUGH TERRAINS; SCALE EFFECTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 49349104350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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