Locomorph on EuroNews:
Locomorph has been featured EuroNews:
The program is already available in all the 12 languages on our website:English: http://euronews.com/2013/05/06/do-the-locomotion/
French: http://fr.euronews.com/2013/05/06/la-marche-en-avant-des-robots/
German: http://de.euronews.com/2013/05/06/koennen-maschinen-laufen-lernen/
Italian: http://fr.euronews.com/2013/05/06/la-marche-en-avant-des-robots/
Spanish: http://es.euronews.com/2013/05/06/pueden-las-maquinas-aprender-a-caminar/
Portuguese: http://pt.euronews.com/2013/05/06/robos-a-imagem-do-homem/
Russian: http://ru.euronews.com/2013/05/06/do-the-locomotion/
Arabic: http://arabic.euronews.com/2013/05/06/do-the-locomotion/
Turkish: http://tr.euronews.com/2013/05/06/robot-bilimi-bir-adim-daha-ileriye-gidiyor/
Persian: http://persian.euronews.com/2013/05/06/do-the-locomotion/
Ukrainian: http://ua.euronews.com/2013/05/06/do-the-locomotion/
Greek: http://gr.euronews.com/2013/05/06/do-the-locomotion/
It is also available on the euronews' YouTube channel:
English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQWw-m_q4lk
L-MESTRAN
- This video demonstrates hopping locomotion of a single-legged hoping at various stride frequencies. The leg stiffness is adapted according to the controlled stride frequency to reduce energy cost
- We also utilize the hopping leg to investigate how leg stiffness can improve locomotion efficiency in compliant ground (tracks).
Hopping on highly compliant tracks and hard tracks
UZH 1
The following videos are a few examples of the capabilities. of the UZH1 robot. We show the different possible gaits and a video on gait changes as well as maneuverability:
Changing gaits, from pace to bound
Maneuvering the robot in bound gait
UJEN
Simulation studies
(1) Walk-run-transitions. Dynamic transition from running to walking and vice versa with the leg-mass extended spring-mass model M-SLIP. To prepare the transition to walking, speed is reduced first (yellow dot). Leg damping is increased to induce the gait change to walking (red dot). Finally, we switch back to the original combination of speed and leg damping, which consequently induces a gait change to running (green dot).
download movie (wmv, 15MB) (was shown by F. Peuker during oral presentation at 5th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines (AMAM2011), Oct 11-14, 2011, Awaji Island, Japan)
(2) Limb-damage caused change of pedality. Our M-SLIP model can keep on with dynamic legged locomotion even if a hind limb in a quadruped suffers a sudden damage. At the instant of power-off, the damaged leg is moved to a neutral position where it does not hinder locomotion. At the same time, we induce a three-legged gait similar to those observed in dogs by adjusting hip stiffness, leg stiffness and control primitve (leg swings forward directly after lift-off) of the remaining hind limb.
download movie (wmv, 3MB) (was shown by F. Peuker during oral presentation at Dynamic Walking 2011, Jul 18-21, 2011, Jena, Germany)
LocoKit
LocoKit videos can be found on University of Southern Denmark's Modular Robotics Research Lab's YouTube page. However, here is a direct link to a LocoKit robot doing prong:
http://youtu.be/ozpdNKjdJ1E
Here is video showing the new LocoKit mechatronics in action. Notice there is no intelligent control, it is just a hardware demonstration.
