Design of a tunable stiffness composite leg for dynamic locomotion

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 7, Issue PART A, 2010, Pages 215-222

  Galloway, Kevin C ^a   Clark, Jonathan E ^b   Koditschek, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED VARIABLES; DYNAMIC COUPLINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEXAPEDAL RUNNING ROBOT; LEG DESIGN; LEG STIFFNESS; LEGGED ROBOTS; MECHANICAL COMPLEXITY; NEW DESIGN; PASSIVE COMPLIANCE; RUNNING ROBOTS; RUNTIMES; SIMULATION STUDIES; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

ANIMALS; ROBOTS; STIFFNESS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77953748388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-86847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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