Stability analysis of a clock-driven rigid-body SLIP model for RHex

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 23, Issue 10-11, 2004, Pages 1001-1012

  Altendorfer, Richard ^a   Koditschek, Daniel E ^a   Holmes, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Legged locomotion; Return map; Spring loaded inverted pendulum; Stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ENERGY CONSERVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

LEGGED LOCOMOTION; RETURN MAP; SPRING LOADED INVERTED PENDULUM (SLIP); STABILITY ANALYSIS;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 6344291797     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364904047390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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