MABEL, a new robotic bipedal walker and runner

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2030-2036

  Grizzle, J W ^a   Hurst, Jonathan ^b   Morris, Benjamin ^c   Park, Hae Won ^a   Sreenath, Koushil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

^c EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION; BIPEDAL WALKER; FEEDBACK CONTROL ALGORITHMS; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWERTRAIN DESIGN; ROUGH TERRAINS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN;

ALGORITHMS; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS; STUDENTS;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 70449645006     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2009.5160550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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