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This book reports on the developments of the bipedal walking robot
Lucy. Special about it is that the biped is not actuated with the
classical electrical drives but with pleated pneumatic artificial
muscles. In an antagonistic setup of such muscles both the torque
and the compliance are controllable. From human walking there is
evidence that joint compliance plays an important role in energy
efficient walking and running. Moreover pneumatic artificial
muscles have a high power to weight ratio and can be coupled
directly without complex gearing mechanism, which can be beneficial
towards legged mechanisms. Additionally, they have the capability
of absorbing impact shocks and store and release motion energy.
This book gives a complete description of Lucy: the hardware, the
electronics and the software. A hybrid simulation program,
combining the robot dynamics and muscle/valve thermodynamics, has
been written to evaluate control strategies before implementing
them in the real biped.
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