VIRTUAL FORCES BASED LOCOMOTION STRATEGY AND ENERGY BALANCE ANALYSIS

Abstract This paper presents some control methodologies in the field of biped locomotion. In particular a nine degrees of freedom planar biped robot has been considered. Some gait and posture control strategies have been developed using a simple but efficient force and position control scheme, based on a reinterpretation the Virtual Model Control approach. Finally some energy based gait analysis have been carried out during the motion.