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Details of Walking robots II

RABBIT is similar the "Tin Man" hi-tech of "The Wizard of Oz" without the arms. It has been developed from French scientists and of the University of Michigan in the course of last the six years. It is the first robot to the world in a position to walking and to be in equilibrium like a human.

Jessy Grizzle, university professor of electrical engineering and computer science near the U-M, that it has developed the control system, has said that its ability of balance, programmed in its circuits, will have many applications, in medical field, in therefore called "smart prosthetics" (prostetica the intelligent one), in a position to adapting themselves to the customer, and in the physical riabilitazione of persons who have lost the use of the legs.

Regarding the goffaggine of it puts into effect them robot bipedi, and in a generalized manner of all it blots some to them that walk, the sophisticated control system of RABBIT produces one greater stability and fluità of the movements. Unprovided of feet, it is supplied of a beautiful pair of legs that finish like stilts so that pivots on to point when it moves forward, concurring with different you leave to interact dynamically.

"the stability concept has been reduced to two mathematical formulas", has explained Grizzle, "so as to to simplify the control algorithm that determines the movement". Draft of innovative an analytical method that reduces a lot the costs and considerably increases the effectiveness of the performance.

RABBIT makes part of French plan ROBEA (Robotics and Artificial Entity), and has been realized in the Laboratoire Automatique di Grenoble. The theory to the base of the control system has been published on the "International Journal of Robotics Research".