Estimation of the center of mass: From humanoid Robots to human beings

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 707-712

  Cotton, Sebastien ^a   Murray, Andrew Peter ^b   Fraisse, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

Center of mass; Estimation; Humanoids

Indexed keywords

CENTER OF MASS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FORCE PLATE; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN SUBJECTS; HUMANOID ROBOT; MULTI-LINK; RIGID BODY SYSTEMS; SERIAL CHAINS; TOTAL MASS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 70450237714     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2032687     Document Type: Article

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