Walking and crawling with ALoF: A robot for autonomous locomotion on four legs

Industrial Robot

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 264-268

  Remy, C David ^a   Baur, Oliver ^a   Latta, Martin ^a   Lauber, Andi ^a   Hutter, Marco ^a   Hoepflinger, Mark A ^a   Pradalier, Cédric ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Motion; Robots

Indexed keywords

3D SENSOR; AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FOUR-LEG; HAPTIC INTERACTIONS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; LOOSE SOILS; MOTION; RANGE OF MOTIONS; STABLE LOCOMOTION;

ELASTIC DEFORMATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; WALKING AIDS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79955686854     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911111122761     Document Type: Article

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