Starleth: A compliant quadrupedal robot for fast, efficient, and versatile locomotion

Adaptive Mobile Robotics - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, CLAWAR 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 483-490

  Hutter, Marco ^a   Gehring, Christian ^a   Bloesch, Michael ^a   Hoepflinger, Mark A ^a   Remy, C David ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compliant quadruped; Legged locomotion; SEA; Torque control

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS; TORQUE CONTROL;

COMPLIANT QUADRUPED; DYNAMIC MANEUVERS; KEY ELEMENTS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; QUADRUPEDAL ROBOT; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATIONS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT;

REAL TIME CONTROL;

EID: 84891352501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1142/9789814415958_0062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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