Including joint torques and power consumption in the stability margin of walking robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-57

  De Santos, Pablo Gonzalez ^a   Estremera, Joaquin ^a   Garcia, E ^a   Armada, M ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Legged robots; Stability measurements; Static stability; Walking locomotion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOTORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TORQUE;

GAIT-GENERATION; MOBILE SYSTEMS; QUASI-STATIC STABILITY; STABILITY MARGINS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 9144245685     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000047288.23401.5c     Document Type: Review

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