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Anthropomorphic Design of the Human-Like Walking Robot

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In this paper, we present a new concept of the mechanical design of a humanoid robot. The goal is to build a humanoid robot utilizing a new structure which is more suitable for human-like walking with the characteristics of the knee stretch, heel-contact, and toe-off. Inspired by human skeleton, we made an anthropomorphic pelvis for the humanoid robot. In comparison with conventional humanoid robots, with such the anthropomorphic pelvis, our robot is capable of adjusting the center of gravity of the upper body by the motion of pelvic tilt, thus reducing the required torque at the ankle joint and the velocity variations in human-like walking. With more precise analysis of the foot mechanism, the fixed-length inverted pendulum can be used to describe the dynamics of biped walking, thus preventing redundant works and power consumption in length variable inverted pendulum system. As the result of the new structure we propose, a humanoid robot is able to walk with human-like gait.

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    Ming-Hsun Chiang & Fan-Ren Chang

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Chiang, MH., Chang, FR. Anthropomorphic Design of the Human-Like Walking Robot. J Bionic Eng 10, 186–193 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-6529(13)60214-0

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