Publications:
Refereed Journal Publications
Palmer III, Luther R., Diller, Eric D. and Quinn, Roger D., "Distributed Inward Gripping: A Gravity-Independent Attachment Strategy for Complex Climbing Maneuvers," submitted for publication in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, March, 2013.
Palankar, Mayur and Palmer III, Luther R., “A Force Threshold-based Position Controller for Legged Locomotion,” submitted for publication in Autonomous Robots, February, 2013.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Orin, David E., "Intelligent Control of High-Speed Turning in a Quadruped," The Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 58, pp. 47-68, 2010.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Orin, David E.,"3D Control of a High-Speed Quadruped Trot" Industrial Robot, vol.33, no.4, pp. 298-302, 2006.
Nichol, Jamie G., Palmer III, Luther R., Singh, Surya P.N., Orin, David E. and Waldron, Kenneth J.,"System Design of a Quadrupedal Galloping Machine" The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 23, no. 10-11, pp. 1013-1027, October-November, 2004.
Refereed Conference Publications
Eaton, Caitrin and Palmer III, Luther R., “A Method for Generating Inverse Kinematic Solutions for Legged Systems from Sparse Biological Data,” submitted for publication in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), March, 2013.
Vickers, Jeffrey D., Palankar, Mayur and Palmer III, Luther R., “Implementation of a Biologically Inspired Control System for Upright Walking Robots,” submitted for publication in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), March, 2013.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Eaton, Caitrin, “Toward Innate Leg Stability on Unmodeled and Natural Terrain: Quadruped Walking,” in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2775-2780, October, 2012.
Palankar, Mayur and Palmer III, Luther R., “Toward Innate Leg Stability on Unmodeled and Natural Terrain: Hexapod Walking,” in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 526-531, October, 2012.
Palankar, Mayur and Palmer III, Luther R., “A Force Threshold-Based Position Controller For Legged Locomotion Over Irregular Terrain,” in CLAWAR 2012 – Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Baltimore, MD, USA, pp. 563-570, July, 2012
Palmer III, Luther and Palankar, Mayur, “Blind Hexapod Walking Over Uneven Terrain Using Only Local Feedback,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 1603-1608, Phuket, Thailand, December, 2011.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Palankar, Mayur, “A Distributed Hybrid Controller for Walking Over Uneven Terrain,” in Proc. of CLAWAR’11: 14th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, pp. 623-630, Paris, France, September, 2011.
Palmer III, Luther R., Diller, Eric D. and Quinn, Roger D.,"Toward a Rapid and Robust Attachment Strategy for Vertical Climbing," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2810-2815, Anchorage, Alaska, May, 2010.
Palmer III, Luther R., Diller, Eric D. and Quinn, Roger D., "Design of a Wall-Climbing Hexapod for Advanced Maneuvers," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 625-630, St. Louis, MO, October, 2009.
Palmer III, Luther R., Diller, Eric D. and Quinn, Roger D.,"Design Asspect of a Climbing Robot" in Proc. of CLAWAR'09: 12th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, pp. 197-204, Istanul, Turkey, September, 2009.
Wile, Gregory D., Daltorio, Kathryn A., Diller, Eric D., PalmerIII, Luther R., Gorb, Stanislav N., Ritzmann, Roy E. and Quinn, Roger D.,"Screenbot: Walking Inverted Using Distributed Inward Gripping," in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on IROS, pp. 1513-1518, Nice, France, September, 2008.
Daltorio, Kathryn A., Witushynsky, Timothy C., Wile, Gregory D., Palmer III, Luther R., Malek, Anas A., Ahmad, Mohd R., Southard, Lori, Gorb, Stanislav n., Ritzmann, Roy E. and Quinn, Roger D., "A Body Joint Improves Vertical to Horizontal Transitions of a Wall-Climbing Robot" in Proc. of the IEEE ICRA, pp. 3046-3051, Pasadena, CA, May, 2008.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Orin, David E.,"Quadrupedal Running at High Speed Over Uneven Terrain" in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on IROS, pp. 5743-5749, San Diego, CA, October, 2007.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Orin, David E.,"Force Redistribution in a Quadruped Running Trot" in Proc. of the IEEE ICRA, pp. 4343-4348, Roma, Italy, April, 2007.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Orin, David E.,"Attitude Control of a Quadruped Trot While Turning" in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on IROS, pp. 5743-5749, Beijing, China, October, 2006.
Palmer III, Luther R. and Orin, David E.,"Control of a 3D Quadruped Trot" in Proc. of CLAWAR'05: 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, pp. 165-172, London, UK, September, 2005.
Palmer II, Luther R., Orin, David E., Marhefka, Duane W., Schmiedeler, James P. and Waldron, Kenneth J., "Intelligent Control of an Experimental Articulated Leg for a Galloping Machine" in Proc. of the IEEE ICRA, pp. 3821-3827, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003.
Nichol, Jamie G., Palmer III, Luther R. and Waldron, Kenneth J.,"Design of a Leg System for Quadruped Gallop," in Proc. of the 11th World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science, pp. 87-91, Tianjin, China, August, 2003.