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Biomimetic Design And Construction Of A Bipedal Walking Robot, Alexander Gabriel Steele
Biomimetic Design And Construction Of A Bipedal Walking Robot, Alexander Gabriel Steele
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Human balance and locomotion control is highly complex and not well understood. To understand how the nervous system controls balance and locomotion works, we test how the body responds to controlled perturbations, the results are analyzed, and control models are developed. However, to recreate this system of control there is a need for a robot with human-like kinematics. Unfortunately, such a robotic testbed does not exist despite the numerous applications such a design would have in mobile robotics, healthcare, and prosthetics.
This thesis presents a robotic testbed model of human lower legs. By using MRI and CT scans, I designed …