Analysis and evaluation of the stability of a biologically inspired, leg loss tolerant gait for six- and eight-legged walking robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4728-4735

  Görner, Martin ^a   Hirzinger, Gerd ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; COMPLIANT JOINTS; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; HEXAPOD ROBOTS; KINEMATIC SIMULATIONS; LEGGED ROBOTS; LEGGED WALKING ROBOT; PITCH ANGLE; WALKING STABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; ROBOTICS; STABILITY; WALKING AIDS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77955807396     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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