Continuous free-crab gaits for hexapod robots on a natural terrain with forbidden zones: An application to humanitarian demining

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 700-711

  Estremera, J ^a   Cobano, J A ^a   Gonzalez de Santos, P ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gait generation; Gait planning; Legged robots; Walking robots

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; CONTROL MODULE; GAIT GENERATION; GAIT PLANNING; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; HEXAPOD ROBOTS; HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LEGGED ROBOTS; MOBILE PLATFORM; SENSORY SYSTEM; WALKING ROBOTS;

GAIT ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77950189110     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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