Human-like compliant locomotion: State of the art of robotic implementations

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Torricelli, Diego ^a   Gonzalez, Jose ^a   Weckx, Maarten ^b   Jiménez Fabián, René ^b   Vanderborght, Bram ^b   Sartori, Massimo ^c   Dosen, Strahinja ^c   Farina, Dario ^c   Lefeber, Dirk ^b   Pons, Jose L ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^d SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

biomechanics; compliance; human likeness; humanoids; robotics; walking

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; BIOMECHANICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

COMPLIANCE; HUMAN BIPEDAL WALKINGS; HUMAN LIKENESS; HUMANOIDS; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; ROBOTIC IMPLEMENTATION; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; WALKING;

ROBOTICS;

ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; FOOT JOINT; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG; LIMB PROSTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; PELVIC GIRDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; WALKING;

ANKLE JOINT; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMIMETICS; FOOT JOINTS; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; LOCOMOTION; PELVIC BONES; ROBOTICS; WALKING;

EID: 84991833409     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/11/5/051002     Document Type: Review

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