RI Seminar: Jonathan Hurst : Designing Robots to Walk and Run

Jonathan Hurst College of Engineering Deans Professor, Oregon State University April 01, 2016 Abstract Legged locomotion is a challenging physical interaction task: underactuation, unexpected impacts, and large and rapidly changing forces and velocities are commonplace. Utilizing passive hardware dynamics in tight integration with the software control, with both aspects of “behavior design” considered together as part of the overall design process, can drastically improve the performance of a machine as m