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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Two-legged robots
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 18:52:06 GMT
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polyakov@eng.umd.edu (Vadim Polyakov) writes:
>touching the ground. In the literature, there are suggestions for implementing
>an active dynamic walking machine by replacing the effect of the incline by an 
>actuator, but I don't know if this has been done.

       See "Legged Robots that Balance", by Marc Raibert.  The 1991
SIGGRAPH video has some good clips of later improvements on that work.
I've recently applied for a patent on techniques that extend it to
hills and slippery surfaces.

					John Nagle
