This review paper provides a synthetic yet critical overview of the key biomechanical principles of human bipedal walking and their current implementation in robotic platforms. We describe the functional role of human joints, addressing in particular the relevance of the compliant properties of the different degrees of freedom throughout the gait cycle. We focused on three basic functional units involved in locomotion, i.e. the ankle-foot complex, the knee, and the hip-pelvis complex, and their relevance to whole-body performance. We present an extensive review of the current implementations of these mechanisms into robotic platforms, discussing their potentialities and limitations from the functional and energetic perspectives. We specifically targeted humanoid robots, but also revised evidence from the field of lower-limb prosthetics, which presents innovative solutions still unexploited in the current humanoids. Finally, we identified the main critical aspects of the process of translating human principles into actual machines, providing a number of relevant challenges that should be addressed in future research. ; This review paper results from the research activities carried out in the FP7 project H2R 'Integrative Approach for the Emergence of Human-Like Robotic Locomotion', grant agreement n° 600698 (www.h2rproject.eu), and supported by the Biomot project, grant agreement n° 611695. ; Peer Reviewed
Human-like compliant locomotion: State of the art of robotic implementations
2016-08-22
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC: | 629 |
Human-like compliant locomotion: state of the art of robotic implementations.
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