From passive to active dynamic walking

The paper firstly presents a passive walking machine with an actuator at the hip which is controlled so that walking on a slope can be continued. In the second part, how to modify the control law for the robot walking on level ground is discussed and studied for the given robot when actuators are added at the ankles.

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