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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Biped robot research..
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 03:47:18 GMT
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sahmed@ub.d.umn.edu (Shahabuddin Ahmed) writes:
>My first attempt to post a news here!! I did a small project on Biped
>locomotion study. We studied three-degrees-of-freedom and
>five-degrees-of-freedom bipeds. We actually didn't do any thing experimental,
>all we did is the simulation and study. We studied our biped models and tried
>to test the inverse dynamics control system on the locomotion.

>I am wondering, if anybody out in the internet doing this research and or
>experimental research on this.

     I just submitted a paper to ALIFE IV on control of a one-legged
hopper on hilly and slippery surfaces.  As it turns out, a subsumption
architecture works better than inverse dynamics.

					John Nagle
