Local control mechanisms in six-legged walking

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2655-2660

  Schilling, Malte ^a   Schneider, Axel ^a   Cruse, Holk ^a   Schmitz, Josef ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SCHEMES; DECENTRALISED; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; ELASTIC JOINTS; JOINT VELOCITY; LOCAL CONTROL; LOCAL POSITIVE VELOCITY FEEDBACKS; MECHANICAL JOINTS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SIX-LEGGED WALKING; TIME STEP; VELOCITY FEEDBACK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 69549131455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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