Title
Active walking robot mimicking flat-footed passive dynamic walking.
Abstract
Many biped robots that achieve high-efficient walking have been proposed in the recent years. Many researchers have thus developed biped robots that achieve active walking based on passive dynamic walking (PDW). Although these biped robots achieve energy-efficient active walking, their walking speed is generally slow. We have proposed a flat-footed PDW robot with the ankle springs and inerters. Using the ankle inerters, this robot achieves more high-speed PDW than PDW of conventional flat-footed robots. We thus developed a flat-footed biped robot achieving active walking on level ground by mimicking the flat-footed PDW. By simulations and experiments, we show that our biped robot achieves more highspeed and energy-efficient active walking than conventional biped robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491146
ROBIO
Keywords
Field
DocType
legged locomotion,robot dynamics,active walking robot,ankle inerters,ankle springs,energy-efficient active walking,flat-footed biped robot,flat-footed passive dynamic walking,high-speed PDW,level ground
Control theory,Simulation,Control engineering,Engineering,Flat footed,Robot,Preferred walking speed
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.51
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuta Hanazawa1153.99
Hiroyuki Suda280.98
Yu Iemura350.85
Masaki Yamakita426657.24