Abstract

Humanoid robots are expected to play a major role in the future of space and planetary exploration. Humanoid robot features could have many advantages, such as interacting with astronauts and the ability to perform human tasks. However, the challenge of developing such a robot is quite high due to many difficulties. One of the main difficulties is the difference in gravity. Most researchers in the field of bipedal locomotion have not paid much attention to the effect of gravity. Gravity is an important parameter in generating a bipedal locomotion trajectory. This research investigates the effect of gravity on bipedal walking motion. It focuses on low gravity, since most of the known planets and moons have lower gravity than earth. Further study is conducted on a full humanoid robot model walking subject to the moon's gravity, and an approach for dealing with moon gravity is proposed in this paper.

Details

Title
Study of Bipedal Robot Walking Motion in Low Gravity: Investigation and Analysis
Author
Omer, Aiman 1 ; Hashimoto, Kenji 2 ; Lim, Hun-Ok 3 ; Takanishi, Atsuo 4 

 School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 
 Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 
 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kanagawa, Yokohama, Japan 
 Department of Mechanical Engineering / Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Sep 2014
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN
17298806
e-ISSN
17298814
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2325282507
Copyright
© 2014. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.