A biologically-inspired dynamic legged locomotion with a modular reconfigurable robot

2008 Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2008

Volumn , Issue PART A, 2009, Pages 253-260

  Sastra, Jimmy ^a   Heredia, Willy Giovanni Bernal ^a   Clark, Jonathan ^b   Yim, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED SPACE; DYNAMIC RUNNING; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAT TERRAINS; HEXAPEDAL ROBOTS; LEG PAIRS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; ROBOT DESIGNS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MODULAR ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70349912257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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