A gyroscopically stabilised legged robot including: a body; a number of legs coupled to the body and configured for providing legged locomotion of the robot across a surface in use; an orientation sensor for detecting an angular orientation of the body; a control moment gyroscope mounted on the robot, the control moment gyroscope including a rotor that spins around a rotor spin axis in use, and a tilting mechanism for supporting the rotor relative to the robot, the tilting mechanism being configured to rotate the rotor spin axis about two gyroscope rotation axes to thereby generate respective gyroscopic reaction torques; and a gyroscope controller configured to control operation of the tilting mechanism based at least in part on the detected angular orientation of the body, such that gyroscopic reaction torques are generated to at least partially stabilise the angular orientation of the body during the legged locomotion of the robot.


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    Title :

    Gyroscopically stabilised legged robot


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2025-04-01


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B25J Manipulatoren , MANIPULATORS / B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge



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