Safe Fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping

Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which rapidly modifies the robot's fall direction in order to avoid hitting a person or an object in the vicinity. Our approac...

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Main Authors: Yun, Seung-kook (Contributor), Goswami, Ambarish (Author), Sakagami, Yoshiaki (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-10-25T20:00:53Z.
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