Development of a Quadruped Walking Robot TITAN XI for Steep Slope Operation – Step Over Gait to Avoid Concrete Frames on Steep Slopes –

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-26

  Hodoshima, Ryuichi ^a   Doi, Takahiro ^b   Fukuda, Yasushi ^c   Hirose, Shigeo ^a   Okamoto, Toshihito ^d   Mori, Junichi ^d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TAISHO KENSETU Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

concrete frame avoidance; intermittent crawl gait; map generation; quadruped walking robot; terrain adaptive gait

Indexed keywords

CONCRETES; MOBILE ROBOTS;

CONCRETE FRAME; CONCRETE FRAME AVOIDANCE; GAIT CONTROL; INTERMITTENT CRAWL GAITS; MAP GENERATION; QUADRUPED WALKING ROBOT; STABILITY MARGINS; STEEP SLOPE; STEP-OVERS; TERRAIN-ADAPTIVE GAIT;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 67649596392     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2007.p0013     Document Type: Article

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