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From: smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Miller)
Subject: Re: Need info on four legged robots
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In article <19077@ector.cs.purdue.edu> bouma@cs.purdue.EDU (William J. Bouma) writes:
>
>In article <19182@plains.NoDak.edu>, altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg) writes:
>|> For info on legged robots try:
>|> 
>|> Legged Robots that Balance, by Marc Raibert, published by MIT Press, 1986.
>
>  The stuff in that book is good if you want your robot to run, jump, hop,
>  skip, trot, or gallop.  It does not cover balanced walking.  What Raibert
>  does is better called "hopping" than "walking".  It is a very interesting
>  read, but I object to the deceptive (too general) title.  He should have
>  called it "Legged Robots that Hop"!
>
>-- 
>Bill <bouma@cs.purdue.edu> 

What you are describing is the difference between statically stable
legged locomotion and dynamically stable legged locomotion.

If anything balance has more to do with the dynamic case than the
static case.

You don't have a valid complaint. (You don't have a leg to stand on.)

Gotta run, Jeff



-- 
Jeffrey H. Miller     smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov
Sverdrup Technology, NASA Lewis Research Center Group, Cleveland, Ohio

favorite book title: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

