Valkyrie: NASA's First Bipedal Humanoid Robot

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 397-419

  Radford, Nicolaus A ^a   Strawser, Philip ^a   Hambuchen, Kimberly ^a   Mehling, Joshua S ^a   Verdeyen, William K ^a   Donnan, A Stuart ^a   Holley, James ^a   Sanchez, Jairo ^a   Nguyen, Vienny ^a   Bridgwater, Lyndon ^a   Berka, Reginald ^a   Ambrose, Robert ^a   Myles Markee, Mason ^a   Fraser Chanpong, N J ^a   McQuin, Christopher ^b   Yamokoski, John D ^c   Hart, Stephen ^d   Guo, Raymond ^d   Parsons, Adam ^e   Wightman, Brian ^e   Dinh, Paul ^e   Ames, Barrett ^e   Blakely, Charles ^e   Edmondson, Courtney ^e   Sommers, Brett ^e   Rea, Rochelle ^e   Tobler, Chad ^e   Bibby, Heather ^f   Howard, Brice ^f   Niu, Lei ^f   Lee, Andrew ^f   Conover, Michael ^f   Truong, Lily ^f   Reed, Ryan ^f   Chesney, David ^g   Platt, Robert ^h   Johnson, Gwendolyn ⁱ   Fok, Chien Liang ⁱ   Paine, Nicholas ⁱ   Sentis, Luis ⁱ   Cousineau, Eric ^j   Sinnet, Ryan ^j   Lack, Jordan ^j   Powell, Matthew ^j   Morris, Benjamin ^j   Ames, Aaron ^j   Akinyode, Jide ^k   more..

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^d GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Oceaneering Space Systems   (United States)

^f JACOBS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^g WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^h NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^j TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INVERSE KINEMATICS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NASA; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPACE PLATFORMS;

CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; HUMAN SPACEFLIGHTS; JOHNSON SPACE CENTER; MOBILE MANIPULATION; OPERATOR INTERFACES; ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; SUPERVISED AUTONOMY;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84927077946     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21560     Document Type: Article

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