Investigation of Standing Up Strategies and Considerations for Gait Planning for a Novel Three-Legged Mobile Robot

This thesis addresses two important issues when operating the novel three legged mobile robot STriDER (Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot); how to stand up after falling down while minimizing the motor torques at the joints and considerations for gait planning. STriDER uses a unique tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morazzani, Ivette Marie
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32319
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05072008-112043/