Selecting gaits for economical locomotion of legged robots

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Int. J. Robotics Res.

• Publication date

  2016-08-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1177/0278364915612572
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