Biped Lucy

This bipedal walking robot is actuated with pneumatic artificial muscles instead of the classical electrical drives. More info about this robot on http://lucy.vub.ac.be

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• biped
• robot
• lucy
• pneumatic
• artificial
• muscle
• walking

[hosseinj59]

Great..

I am using pneumatic muscle for my research. this one that is done in VUB is fantastic.

I have uploaded a vert simple test on fluidic muscle. however, later I will upload the single link and two link arm actuated by PAMs.

[BramVanderborght]

thanks

[spikes2020]

any updates on this robot, i would like to see some more videos on how it is progressing!

[BramVanderborght]

I will not continue the research towards the biped Lucy, but I will probably build a successor.

[lynlimer]

NICE!

Does the actuatorts have proportional controlled stiffness, or fixed rates?

Good luck :)

[BramVanderborght]

The stiffness of the actuators is controllable, but a fixed value is chosen during walking. I developed a strategy to control the stiffness to reduce the energy consumption and evaluated this on a pendulum powered by muscles, but not implemented in the control architecture because the robot is currently walking too slow to benefit already from stiffness control.

[newhaveninn]

this is cool!! would have been better with sound though

[hosseinj59]

great....

[RainbowsEatUreSoul]

i wonder if it could give u a piggy back ride. x]

[jennaofthecuckooclan]

Is this Lucy as in, the book "growing up with Lucy?"

[AndyGoRAWR]

That's very cool, the jump surprised me. Balance has always been a problem with robots i think but this seems fine.

[djsufferthing]

I have no idea what you're talking about, this robot happens to be Belgian.

[FatPumPumLovah]

America is soooooooooo behind

[FSK1138]

a great set of legs for COG