The role of intrinsic muscle properties for stable hopping - Stability is achieved by the force-velocity relation

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Haeufle, D F B ^a   Grimmer, S ^a   Seyfarth, A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; CONTRACTILE ELEMENTS; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; STABILIZING EFFECTS;

STABILITY;

MUSCLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OSCILLOMETRY; POSTURAL BALANCE;

EID: 77649203861     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/1/016004     Document Type: Article

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