Recent advances in bipedal walking robots: Review of gait, drive, sensors and control systems

T Mikolajczyk, E Mikołajewska, HFN Al-Shuka… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Currently, there is an intensive development of bipedal walking robots. The most known
solutions are based on the use of the principles of human gait created in nature during …

Robotics and neuroscience

D Floreano, AJ Ijspeert, S Schaal - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
In the attempt to build adaptive and intelligent machines, roboticists have looked at
neuroscience for more than half a century as a source of inspiration for perception and …

Adaptive neural network control of biped robots

C Sun, W He, W Ge, C Chang - IEEE transactions on systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, neural network control strategies based on radial basis functions are designed
for biped robots, which includes balancing and posture control. To deal with system …

Fast biped walking with a sensor-driven neuronal controller and real-time online learning

T Geng, B Porr, F Wörgötter - The International Journal of …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we present our design and experiments on a planar biped robot under the
control of a pure sensor-driven controller. This design has some special mechanical …

Adaptive, fast walking in a biped robot under neuronal control and learning

P Manoonpong, T Geng, T Kulvicius… - PLoS Computational …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Human walking is a dynamic, partly self-stabilizing process relying on the interaction of the
biomechanical design with its neuronal control. The coordination of this process is a very …

Heterogeneous crowd simulation using parametric reinforcement learning

K Hu, B Haworth, G Berseth, V Pavlovic… - … on Visualization and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Agent-based synthetic crowd simulation affords the cost-effective large-scale simulation and
animation of interacting digital humans. Model-based approaches have successfully …

Deep integration of physical humanoid control and crowd navigation

B Haworth, G Berseth, S Moon, P Faloutsos… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many multi-agent navigation approaches make use of simplified representations such as a
disk. These simplifications allow for fast simulation of thousands of agents but limit the …

On the role of sensory feedbacks in Rowat–Selverston CPG to improve robot legged locomotion

E Amrollah, P Henaff - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2010 - frontiersin.org
This paper presents the use of Rowat and Selverston-type of central pattern generator
(CPG) to control locomotion. It focuses on the role of afferent exteroceptive and …

Sensing through body dynamics

F Iida, R Pfeifer - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2006 - Elsevier
It has been shown that sensory morphology and sensory–motor coordination enhance the
capabilities of sensing in robotic systems. The tasks of categorization and category learning …

Adaptive parallel reflex-and decoupled CPG-based control for complex bipedal locomotion

C Akkawutvanich, FI Knudsen, AF Riis… - Robotics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The achievement of adaptive, stable, and robust locomotion and dealing with asymmetrical
conditions for bipedal robots remain a challenging problem. To address the problem, this …