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This paper reports some interesting results on our experimental study of parametrically excited dynamic bipedal walking. We describe the details of the walking machine that has telescopic legs, semicircular feet, free hip-joint and counterweights. The walker can sustain stable dynamic walking on level ground based on mechanical energy restoration in accordance with the principle of parametric excitation...
Period-doubling bifurcation and chaotic behavior are interesting phenomena in limit cycle walking. Their mechanisms are very complicated and their roles in dynamic biped locomotion are still unclear. This paper then investigates how the gait efficiency changes with the asymmetrization through analysis of a simple rimless wheel model. We mathematically show that the symmetric configuration gives the...
This paper studies efficiency and symmetry of ballistic gait. We introduce a compass-like biped model and propose a simple control law for generating the dynamic gait. The efficiency is then numerically analyzed and the optimality of mechanical energy restoration is discussed. It is also shown that perfectly ballistic gait by kick action achieves the highest walking speed and exhibits symmetric gait...
This paper investigates the effect of an upper body on efficient dynamic bipedal walking utilizing its natural dynamics. We introduce an upper body as a one-link torso and add it to a simple biped model by means of a bisecting hip mechanism (BHM). We first mathematically analyze the effect of the upper body with the BHM as a counterweight and discuss how it affects natural swinging motion of the swing...
We clarified that the common necessary condition for generating a dynamic gait results from the requirement to restore mechanical energy through studies on passive dynamic walking mechanisms. This paper proposes a novel method of generating a dynamic gait that can be found in the mechanism of a swing inspired by the principle of parametric excitation using telescopic leg actuation. We first introduce...
Restoring mechanical energy lost by heel-strike collisions is necessary for stable gait generation. One principle to realize this is parametric excitation. Recently, Asano et al. applied this principle to a biped robot with telescopic-legs, and succeeded in generating a sustainable biped gait by computer simulation. In this paper, we deal with a model of a biped robot that has not only semicircular...
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