Spine as an engine: effect of spine morphology on spine-driven quadruped locomotion
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Spine as an engine: effect of spine morphology on spine-driven quadruped locomotion
In quadruped animals, spinal movements contribute to locomotion in terms of controlling body posture and integrating limb and trunk actions. In this paper, we develop quadruped models with different numbers of spinal joints to demonstrate the spine-driven locomotion. Actuated spinal joint(s) are exclusively employed to these models with a minimalistic control strategy. We choose some typical in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advanced Robotics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0169-1864,1568-5535
DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2013.867287