Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan
Online ISSN : 1884-7145
Print ISSN : 0289-1824
ISSN-L : 0289-1824
Cooperative Transportation by Two Autonomous Legged Robots with Flexible Joint
Hinata IkedaYasumichi AiyamaMitsuhiro HaraJun OtaTamio Arai
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2000 Volume 18 Issue 5 Pages 668-674

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In this paper, we propose a method of cooperative transportation by two autonomous 4-legged robots. Since a legged robot's body vibrates seriously in walking, it is difficult to apply the same control method that are effective in cooperation of wheeled robots to legged robots. Then we made a flexible joint with elastic rubber to fix an object to the robot. It can sense force between the object and the robot itself. The two robots compose a leader-follower system and each robot controls its walking velocity and walking phase by its own information of force. We show experimental results of cooperative transportation based on the above method.
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