Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : Mechanical Engineering Congress,Japan
Date : September 11, 2016 - September 14, 2016
In this paper, a new type bipedal robot which has soft hemispheric feet is proposed. It is able to realize an efficient bipedal locomotion by utilizing a rolling motion of hemispheric feet effectively. Furthermore, each hemispheric foot has an active torsional joint. Thus it is able to move as a wheeled vehicle using an infinite rolling motion by the torsional joint. It, however, is difficult to keep its balance more proper than a humanoid robot having normal flat feet. Therefore, firstly a balance control and gait generation method which consider the rolling effect of feet are proposed. After that, several numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed balance control and gait generation method.
