TY - GEN
T1 - Realization by biped leg-wheeled robot of biped walking and wheel-driven locomotion
AU - Hashimoto, Kenji
AU - Hosobata, Takuya
AU - Sugahara, Yusuke
AU - Mikuriya, Yutaka
AU - Sunazuka, Hiroyuki
AU - Kawase, Masamiki
AU - Lim, Hun Ok
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Biped walking is easily adaptable to rough terrain such as stairs and stony paths, but the walk speed and energy efficiency on the flat ground is not so effective compared with wheeled locomotion. In this paper, we propose a biped robot to be able to walk or wheel according to the ground conditions. For wheeled locomotion, WS-2 (Waseda Shoes - No.2) is developed which is composed of a DC motor, a spherical caster and two rubber pads on each foot. WS-2 is attached to the feet of WL-16 (Waseda Leg - No.16) that is the world's first biped-walking robot capable of carrying a human. Also, a path planning for wheeled locomotion is presented. Through hardware experiments, the effectiveness of this foot module is confirmed.
AB - Biped walking is easily adaptable to rough terrain such as stairs and stony paths, but the walk speed and energy efficiency on the flat ground is not so effective compared with wheeled locomotion. In this paper, we propose a biped robot to be able to walk or wheel according to the ground conditions. For wheeled locomotion, WS-2 (Waseda Shoes - No.2) is developed which is composed of a DC motor, a spherical caster and two rubber pads on each foot. WS-2 is attached to the feet of WL-16 (Waseda Leg - No.16) that is the world's first biped-walking robot capable of carrying a human. Also, a path planning for wheeled locomotion is presented. Through hardware experiments, the effectiveness of this foot module is confirmed.
KW - Biped walking
KW - Compensatory motion
KW - Wheel-driven biped robot
KW - Wheeled locomotion
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570565
DO - 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570565
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33846136972
SN - 078038914X
SN - 9780780389144
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 2970
EP - 2975
BT - Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
T2 - 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Y2 - 18 April 2005 through 22 April 2005
ER -