Robustness Test

This experiments evaluates the ability of the robot to respond to perturbations. Specifically, one of the experimenters pushes on the robot, forward and backward, to see if it can be easily knocked over. If it keeps on walking without falling, then we are confident that our control algorithms are providing a robust ``sense of balance'' to the robot.

Details on the feedback controller designs are available here.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~grizzle/papers/robotics.html

You can follow links and find out a lot more about the robot. You can even download the SolidWorks cad files for it.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MABEL
• walking
• robot
• biped
• robustness