Dynamic Stabilisation of the Biped Lucy Powered by Actuators with Controllable Stiffness

Part1 Introduction.- Part2 Description of Lucy.- Part3Trajectory generator.- Part4 Trajectory tracking.- Part5 Compliance.- Part6 General conclusions and future work

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