Probabilistic balance monitoring for bipedal robots

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-256

  Hohn O ^a   Gerth, W ^b  

^a BAKER HUGHES   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balance monitoring; Classification; Fall detection; HMM; Reflex motions; Robot; Viability kernel

Indexed keywords

BALANCE MONITORING; CLASSIFICATION; FALL DETECTION; HMM; REFLEX MOTIONS; ROBOT; VIABILITY KERNEL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 60349114688     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364908095170     Document Type: Article

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