NIIYAMA RYUMA
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Science and Technology
   Position   Associate Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2018
Type International Conference
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Aerial-Biped: a new physical expression by the biped robot using a quadrotor
Contribution Type Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal SIGGRAPH'18: ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Journal TypeAnother Country
Publisher ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
Author and coauthor Azumi Maekawa, Ryuma Niiyama, Shunji Yamanaka
Details We present a biped robot which can move agiler than conventional robots. Our robot can generate bipedal walking motion automatically using the proposed method. By using a quadrotor for balance and movement it is possible to make an agiler movement, and generate a gait interactively and in real time according to the motion of the quadrotor using the optimized control policy of the legs. Our system takes the velocity of the quadrotor as an input and legs motions are produced so that the velocity of the foot in contact with the ground to zero, and bipedal walking motion is generated. The control policy is optimized using reinforcement learning with a physics engine.
DOI 10.1145/3214907.3214928