ScarlETH: Design and control of a planar running robot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 562-567

  Hutter, Marco ^a   Remy, C David ^a   Hoepflinger, Mark A ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CONCEPT; DESIGN AND CONTROL; FLIGHT PHASE; GROUND CONTACTS; HIP JOINTS; LOW-LEVEL CONTROLLERS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NATURAL DYNAMICS; RANGE OF MOTIONS; RUNNING ROBOTS; TASK SPACE; VIRTUAL MODELS;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84455201730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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