Prediction of stable walking for a toy that cannot stand.
Coleman MJ, Garcia M, Mombaur K, Ruina A.
Coleman MJ, et al. Among authors: ruina a.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Aug;64(2 Pt 1):022901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.022901. Epub 2001 Jul 20.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001.
PMID: 11497636
Previous experiments [M. J. Coleman and A. Ruina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3658 (1998)] showed that a gravity-powered toy with no control and that has no statically stable near-standing configurations can walk stably. We show here that a simple rigid-body …
Previous experiments [M. J. Coleman and A. Ruina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3658 (1998)] showed that a gravity-powered toy w …