Rapid pole climbing with a quadrupedal robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2767-2772

  Haynes, G Clark ^a   Khripiny, Alex ^b   Lynch, Goran ^a   Amory, Jonathan ^b   Saundersy, Aaron ^b   Rizziy, Alfred A ^b   Koditschek, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Boston Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC NETWORKING; COMPLEX TERRAINS; CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURE; HIGH-SPEED; LEGGED ROBOTS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MECHANICAL FEATURE; MINIMAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUADRUPEDAL ROBOT; ROLL STABILITY; TELEPHONE POLES;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; POLES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70350749906     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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