Title :
Design and fabrication of bipedal robot
Author :
Kumar, A. Shraban ; Krishnan, Aswin G. ; Sridhar, Arvind ; Kiruthika, N. ; Prakash, N. Krishna
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Amrita Sch. of Eng., Coimbatore, India
Abstract :
Biped robots are complex in design due to the ambitious goal of mimicking the human gait. In this paper, a simple design of a fully autonomous bipedal walking robot that uses simple control and has a human-like morphology and gait is presented. Design aspects covered here include a new balancing control approach for regulating the centre of gravity using the Internal Centre of Gravity Shifter (ICGS). The hip, knee and the foot are designed with a human-oriented approach. The biped gait is achieved with 12 degrees of freedom in the robot: three at each hip, one at each knee, and two at each ankle. It is designed with minimal number of actuators and it is controlled by an ATmega8 microcontroller through a servo controller board.
Keywords :
legged locomotion; 12 degrees of freedom; ATmega8 microcontroller; ICGS; actuators; autonomous bipedal walking robot; balancing control approach; bipedal robot design; bipedal robot fabrication; foot design; gait; hip design; human-like morphology; human-oriented approach; internal centre of gravity shifter; knee design; servo controller board; Gravity; Hip; Joints; Knee; Legged locomotion; Servomotors; ATmega8 microcontroller; Bipedal Robot; Internal Centre of Gravity Shifter (ICGS); Zero Momentum Point;
Conference_Titel :
Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hefei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2695-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCNT.2014.6963121