— Passive dynamics plays an important role in legged locomotion of the biological systems. The use of passive dynamics is expected for energy efficiency, self-stabilization agai...
— A new method is presented for controlling the lateral foot placement of a simple 3D compass biped model. The method is based on the fact that, in the limit cycle, the gait is t...
Mobile robots must cope with uncertainty from many sources along the path from interpreting raw sensor inputs to behavior selection to execution of the resulting primitive actions...
Peter Stone, Mohan Sridharan, Daniel Stronger, Gre...
We demonstrate an adaptation strategy for adjusting the stride period in a hexapedal running robot. The robot is inspired by discoveries about the self-stabilizing properties of i...
Jonathan K. Karpick, Jorge G. Cham, Jonathan E. Cl...
We present a new terrain classification technique both for effective, autonomous locomotion over rough, unknown terrains and for the qualitative analysis of terrains for exploratio...
Amy C. Larson, Guleser K. Demir, Richard M. Voyles