Small slope implies low speed for McGeer's passive walking machines
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Small Slope Implies Low Speed for McGeer's Passive Walking Machines
We consider passive dynamic walking machines of the kind originally studied by McGeer. For passive walking on arbitrarily small slopes, we show that any existing gaits must be correspondingly slow. The argument is rst presented for nonsingular mass distributions, where it is shown that small slopes preclude long steps and that small steps imply low speeds. The argument is then extended to singu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dynamics and Stability of Systems
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0268-1110,1465-3389
DOI: 10.1080/02681110050032128