Passive Joint Forces Are Tuned to Limb Use in Insects and Drive Movements without Motor Activity

Passive Dynamic Walking

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Gait Analysis, Physical Activity, Engineering +22

Muscle and tendon: properties, models, scaling, and application to biomechanics and motor control.

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Muscle Function, Neuromuscular Coordination, Neural Control +26

Efficient Bipedal Robots Based on Passive-Dynamic Walkers

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Engineering, Field Robotics, Motor Control +16

Storage of elastic strain energy in muscle and other tissues

R. McN. Alexander, H. C. Bennet‐Clark · Nature · 1977 · 848 citations

Mechanobiology, Muscle Function, Engineering +11

A Unified Passivity-based Control Framework for Position, Torque and Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots

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Robot Kinematics, Engineering, General Passivity-based Framework +17