Performance analysis and terrain classification for a legged robot over rough terrain

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 513-519

  Garcia Bermudez, Fernando L ^a   Julian, Ryan C ^a   Haldane, Duncan W ^b   Abbeel, Pieter ^a   Fearing, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-EMF; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LEGGED ROBOTS; MAGNETIC ENCODERS; MANUFACTURING VARIABILITY; MOTOR CONTROL; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; ROUGH TERRAINS; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; VIBRATION DATA;

ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84872286559     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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