Dynamic locomotion of a biomorphic quadruped 'Tekken' robot using various gaits: walk, trot, free-gait and bound
By Yasuhiro Fukuoka, Hiroshi Kimura. 2009
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Numerous quadruped walking and running robots have been developed to date. Each robot walks by means of a crawl, walk, trot or pace gait, or runs by means of a bound and/or gallop gait. However, it is very difficult to design a single robot that can both walk and run because of problems related to mechanisms and control. In response to this, we adapted a biological control method for legged locomotion in order to develop a dog-like quadruped robot we have named 'Tekken'. Tekken has a control system that incorporates central pattern generators, reflexes and responses as well as a mechanism that makes the most of the control system. Tekken, which is equipped with a single mechanism, an unchangeable control method, and modifiable parameters, is capable of achieving walking and trotting on flat terrain, can walk using a free gait on irregular terrain, and is capable of running on flat terrain using a bounding gait. In this paper, we describe the mechanism, the control method and the experimental results of our new development.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- Modular Hopping and Running via Parallel Composition (2017, background): “This technique is able to propel some quadrupeds at speeds of 5–7 body lengths/second (see Fukuoka and Kimura (2009) and Sprowitz et al. (2013a), though the latter results are from a 1 kg prototype without onboard power).”