Parametric analysis and design guidelines for a quadruped bounding robot

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chatzakos, Panagiotis ^a   Papadopoulos, Evangelos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPECIFICATIONS;

BOUNDING GAIT; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; DESIGN GUIDELINES; EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY; FORWARD SPEED; LEGGED ROBOTS; MOTION VARIABLES; OPTIMIZATION SCHEMES; PARAMETRIC ANALYSES; PASSIVE MOTION; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; ROBOT PARAMETERS; RUNNING-IN; SAGITTAL PLANE; SIMULATION RESULTS; SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 50249097663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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