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JRM Vol.19 No.3 pp. 353-360
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2007.p0353
(2007)

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Control of Smooth Biped Walking by Means of Heel-Off Motion

Masahiro Doi*, Yasuhisa Hasegawa**, and Toshio Fukuda*

*Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8673, Japan

**Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan

Received:
October 29, 2006
Accepted:
January 24, 2007
Published:
June 20, 2007
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Keywords:
biped walking, dynamics, heel-off, locomotion, energy efficiency
Abstract
We propose the control method of biped walking controlled by heel liftoff that eliminates impact when the foot contacts the walking surface that makes walking unstable. In presenting sagittal motion with heel liftoff, we use an approximate 1-mass model and derive dynamics based on this model. Sagittal motion involves two centers of rotation: the ankle joint (phase 1) and the toe (phase 2). In phase 2, heel leftoff lowers the impact when the foot contacts the walking surface. 1D autonomous dynamics (phase) around the contact point is derived by applying Passive Dynamic Autonomous Control, which we proposed previously [15, 16] to dynamics in both phases. Based on this dynamics, we propose simple stabilizing control by varying the Center of Gravity (COG) trajectory in heel-off phase is proposed, and the motion period of the sagittal motion that is employed in order to synchronize the lateral and sagittal motion is calculated. Numerical simulation confirmed that walking dynamics converges at a certain state, and that heel liftoff reduced impact when the foot contacted the walking surface. We studied the energy efficiency of heel-off walking and proposed the mechanics to improve energy efficiency.
Cite this article as:
M. Doi, Y. Hasegawa, and T. Fukuda, “Control of Smooth Biped Walking by Means of Heel-Off Motion,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.19 No.3, pp. 353-360, 2007.
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