Design principles for highly efficient quadrupeds and implementation on the MIT Cheetah robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3307-3312

  Seok, Sangok ^a   Wang, Albert ^a   Chuah, Meng Yee ^a   Otten, David ^b   Lang, Jeffrey ^b   Kim, Sangbae ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN FEATURES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; HIGH TORQUE DENSITY; LEGGED ROBOTS; LOW IMPEDANCE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TORQUE MOTORS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84887275442     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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