Design and Control of SLIDER: An Ultra-lightweight, Knee-less, Low-cost Bipedal Walking Robot
Ke Wang,David Marsh,Roni Permana Saputra,Digby Chappell,Zhonghe Jiang,Akshay Raut,Bethany Kon,Petar Kormushev,Ke Wang,David Marsh,Roni Permana Saputra,Digby Chappell,Zhonghe Jiang,Akshay Raut,Bethany Kon,Petar Kormushev
Most state-of-the-art bipedal robots are designed to be anthropomorphic and therefore possess legs with knees. Whilst this facilitates more human-like locomotion, there are implementation issues that make walking with straight or near-straight legs difficult. Most bipedal robots have to move with a constant bend in the legs to avoid singularities at the knee joints, and to keep the centre of mass ...
