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Whole-Body Dynamic Telelocomotion: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approach to Human Walking Reference Generation
- Award ID(s):
- 2043339
- PAR ID:
- 10491381
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots
- ISBN:
- 979-8-3503-0327-8
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 8
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Austin, TX, USA
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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