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ICRA
1994
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Nonholonomic Mechanics and Locomotion: The Snakeboard Example
Analysis and simulations are performed for a simplified model of a commercially available variant on the skateboard, known as the Snakeboard1 . Although the model exhibits basic g...
James P. Ostrowski, Andrew D. Lewis, Richard M. Mu...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Gaits and Gait Transitions for Legged Robots
Abstract— This paper introduces the concept of gait transitions, acyclic feedforward motion patterns that allow a robot to switch from one gait to another. Legged robots often ut...
G. Clark Haynes, Alfred A. Rizzi
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Bipedal Walking and Running with Compliant Legs
— Passive dynamics plays an important role in legged locomotion of the biological systems. The use of passive dynamics is expected for energy efficiency, self-stabilization agai...
Fumiya Iida, Juergen Rummel, André Seyfarth
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Minimalistic control of a compass gait robot in rough terrain
— Although there has been an increasing interest in dynamic bipedal locomotion for significant improvement of energy efficiency and dexterity of mobile robots in the real world...
Fumiya Iida, Russ Tedrake