Velocity control of a 2D dynamic walking robot

Abstract

In this abstract we introduce velocity control for our 2D dynamic walking robot Dribbel [1] (figure 1) and show that, by ‘closing the loop’, this automatically leads to increased robustness. Takuma and Hosoda [2] also have used active gait adaptation by using step-by-step feedback, but their research was largely based on experimental results, whereas this research is more theoretical.