Fully Contained 3D Bipedal Walking Dinosaur Robot

3D Bipedal Walker

Used to study planar bipedal walking. First Leg Lab robot to use feet and active ankles.

Used to study planar bipedal walking.

Used to study the smooth transfer of support from one foot to the other. The robot is designed for motion in the coronal plane only.

Demonstrated that two-legged running algorithms could be generalized to allow four-legged running, including the trot, pace, and bound.

Used to show that one-legged control algorithms could be generalized for two-legged running, provided just one leg was used at a time. We have used the planar biped to study locomotion on rough terrain, running at high speed, and gymnastic maneuvers.

Used to investigate simple articulated legs with rotary joints and a springy foot.

The first Leg Lab robot patterned loosely after an animal. It has an articulated leg with the same link length proportions as a kanagaroo and it has a simple actuated tail.

Hops, runs, and performs tucked somersaults.

An experimental platform for studying the role of an articulated spine in running.

Built to show that actively balanced dynamic locomotion could be accomplished with simple control algorithms. It hopped in place, traveled at a specified rate, followed simple paths, and maintained balance when disturbed.

The first Leg Lab robot. It has just one leg with a small foot. It was designed to explore active balance and dynamic stability in legged locomotion. It was controlled with a simple three-part algorithm. The Planar Hopper is shown here jumping over a stack of blocks.

Built to demonstrate dynamically stable robot running with no active sensing or control.

Performs layout somersaults about the unstable middle principal axis of inertia with stability provided by passive arm motion.

Designed to suggest how one could run in space, if you had a ceiling in addition to a floor. It bounces between two walls in a plane while floating on an air table.

The Recti-blob is a robot which has characteristics of both wheels and legs. It rolls over itself but still takes discrete steps. It can most easily described as a tank tread without the tank.