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IJRR
2006
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Three-dimensional Translational Dynamics and Stability of Multi-legged Runners
The spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) is a simple, passivelyelastic two-degree-of-freedom model for legged locomotion that describes the center-of-mass dynamics of many anima...
Justin E. Seipel, Philip Holmes
IJRR
2006
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Planning Tours of Robotic Arms among Partitioned Goals
Mitul Saha, Tim Roughgarden, Jean-Claude Latombe, ...
IJRR
2006
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On the Stability of the Passive Dynamics of Quadrupedal Running with a Bounding Gait
Ioannis Poulakakis, Evangelos Papadopoulos, Martin...
IJRR
2006
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A Haptic Teleoperation Approach Based on Contact Force Control
This paper presents a new teleoperation approach using a virtual spring, and local contact force control on the slave robot. The operational space framework provides the control s...
Jaeheung Park, Oussama Khatib
IJRR
2006
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Hybrid Control of the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX)
The first functional load-carrying and energetically autonomous exoskeleton was demonstrated at U.C. Berkeley, walking at the average speed of 0.9 m/s (2 mph) while carrying a 34 ...
Hami Kazerooni, Ryan Steger, Lihua Huang
IJRR
2006
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Non-Contact Stiffness Imager
Tomohiro Kawahara, Shinji Tanaka, Makoto Kaneko
IJRR
2006
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Experiments with a Large Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Team: Exploration, Mapping, Deployment and Detection
We describe the design and experimental validation of a large heterogeneous mobile robot team built for the DARPA Software for Distributed Robotics (SDR) program. The core challen...
Andrew Howard, Lynne E. Parker, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
IJRR
2006
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iSprawl: Design and Tuning for High-speed Autonomous Open-loop Running
We describe the design features that underlie the operation of iSprawl, a small (0.3 Kg) autonomous, bio-inspired hexapod that runs at 15 body-lengths/second (2.3 m/s). These featu...
Sangbae Kim, Jonathan E. Clark, Mark R. Cutkosky
IJRR
2006
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Braid Effects on Contractile Range and Friction Modeling in Pneumatic Muscle Actuators
Within braided pneumatic Muscle Actuators (pMA) the braid structure is vital to the actuator's performance, preventing over-inflation, converting radial expansion into axial ...
Steve Davis, Darwin G. Caldwell