Stability of a trotting quadruped robot with passive, underactuated legs

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 347-351

  Meek, Sanford ^a,b   Kim, Jongwon ^d   Anderson, Michael ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Air Force Academy

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

DESIGN SPACES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; QUADRUPED ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 51649114800     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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