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AMS
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Exploring Toe Walking in a Bipedal Robot
The design and development of locomotory subsystems such as legs is a key issue in the broader topic of autonomous mobile systems. Simplification of substructures, sensing, actuat...
James Andrew Smith, André Seyfarth
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Gaits and Gait Transitions for Legged Robots
Abstract— This paper introduces the concept of gait transitions, acyclic feedforward motion patterns that allow a robot to switch from one gait to another. Legged robots often ut...
G. Clark Haynes, Alfred A. Rizzi
ICRA
2007
IEEE
123views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Gravity Balancing of a Human Leg using an External Orthosis
Abstract—Gravity balancing is often used in industrial machines to decrease the required actuator efforts during motion. In this paper, we present a new design for gravity balanc...
Abbas Fattah, Sunil Kumar Agrawal
IROS
2008
IEEE
171views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Action planner of hybrid leg-wheel robots for lunar and planetary exploration
— In this paper, we propose an action planning algorithm and its evaluation method based on dynamic simulation for a novel type of hybrid leg-wheel rover for planetary exploratio...
Eric Rohmer, Giulio Reina, Genya Ishigami, Keiji N...
AR
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Novel Energy Transfer Mechanism in a Running Quadruped Robot with One Actuator per Leg
In this work we develop a novel method, or mechanism, of energy transfer in a quadruped running robot. The robot possesses only one actuator per leg, for lower weight and greater ...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos