Bipedal walking gait with variable stiffness knees

Wesley  Roozing; Raffaella Carloni

doi:10.1109/BIOROB.2014.6913899

Bipedal walking gait with variable stiffness knees

Wesley Roozing, Raffaella Carloni

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Abstract

The Segmented Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum model is analysed, and it is shown that it exhibits walking gait. We propose a control architecture that exploits control of the knee stiffness to provide robustness of the system with respect to changes in gait. This controller is extended for a realistic bipedal robot model that uses variable stiffness actuators to control the knee stiffness. The variable knee stiffness is then used to stabilise the system into a walking gait and to inject energy losses generated by friction and foot impacts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	5th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	924-930
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-3128-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-3126-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOROB.2014.6913899
Publication status	Published - Aug 2014
Event	5th IEEE RAS & EMBS Interantional Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2014 - Palacio das Convenções Anhembi, Sao Paulo, Brazil Duration: 12 Aug 2014 → 15 Aug 2014 Conference number: 5

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Conference	5th IEEE RAS & EMBS Interantional Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2014
Abbreviated title	BioRob
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Sao Paulo
Period	12/08/14 → 15/08/14

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