Learning to fall: Designing low damage fall sequences for humanoid soccer robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 796-807

  Ruiz del Solar, J ^a   Palma Amestoy, R ^a   Marchant, R ^a   Parra Tsunekawa, I ^a   Zegers, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Complex humanoid robots simulation; Fall management; Full body motion control; Humanoid soccer robots; Nao humanoid robots

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX HUMANOID ROBOTS SIMULATION; FALL MANAGEMENT; FULL-BODY MOTION CONTROL; HUMANOID SOCCER ROBOTS; NAO HUMANOID ROBOTS;

EDUCATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 67349173217     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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