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Analysis of period-1 passive limit cycles for flexible walking of a biped with knees and point feet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2015

Jae-Sung Moon Open the ORCID record for Jae-Sung Moon [Opens in a new window] ,
Seong-Min Lee ,
Joonbum Bae  and
Youngil Youm
Jae-Sung Moon*
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 689-798, Korea. E-mails: leesm128@unist.ac.kr, youmyi@unist.ac.kr
Seong-Min Lee
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 689-798, Korea. E-mails: leesm128@unist.ac.kr, youmyi@unist.ac.kr
Joonbum Bae
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 689-798, Korea. E-mails: leesm128@unist.ac.kr, youmyi@unist.ac.kr Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 689-798, Korea. E-mail: jbbae@unist.ac.kr
Youngil Youm
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 689-798, Korea. E-mails: leesm128@unist.ac.kr, youmyi@unist.ac.kr
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: icmoon@unist.ac.kr
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Summary

In this paper, we investigate dynamic walking as a convergence to the system's own limit cycles, not to artificially generated trajectories, which is one of the lessons in the concept of passive dynamic walking. For flexible walking, gait transitions can be performed by moving from one limit cycle to another one, and thus, the flexibility depends on the range in which limit cycles exist. To design a bipedal walker based on this approach, we explore period-1 passive limit cycles formed by natural dynamics and analyze them. We use a biped model with knees and point feet to perform numerical simulations by changing the center of mass locations of the legs. As a result, we obtain mass distributions for the maximum flexibility, which can be attained from very limited location sets. We discuss the effect of parameter variations on passive dynamic walking and how to improve robot design by analyzing walking performance. Finally, we present a practical application to a real bipedal walker, designed to exhibit more flexible walking based on this study.

Keywords

Flexible walkingGait analysisPassive dynamic WalkingBiped with kneesRobot design
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Robotica , Volume 34 , Issue 11 , November 2016 , pp. 2486 - 2498
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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