Control design and experimental evaluation of the 2D CyberWalk platform

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5051-5058

  De Luca, Alessandro ^a   Mattone, Raffaella ^a   Giordano, Paolo Robuffo ^b   Bulthoff, Heinrich H ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL GAINS; EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; LARGE SIZES; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 76249118066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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