Modular configuration design for a controlled fall

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5905-5910

  Mather, Thomas William ^a   Yim, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMBING ROBOTS; DYNAMIC MOTIONS; FALLING CAT; LONG AXIS; MODULAR CONFIGURATIONS; POSTURE ERROR;

ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 76249113916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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