Our research and some futurology are showcased in History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series.
Oral Presentation at Dynamic Walking
Is your summer vacation a little dull? Watch our recent talk to inspire your curiosity 😉 PhD student Donghyun Kim and Dr. Sentis, present a clear explanation on whole-body control and simple motion planning to stabilize bipeds with point feet. This presentation was delivered as part of Dynamic Walking 2015 in Columbus, Ohio.
Valkyrie at DARPA’s Robotics Challenge June 2015
Hume Becomes the Biped Robot with the Smallest Point Feet to Dynamically Balance Unsupported
ControlIt! Open-Source Whole-Body Control Software Framework for Humanoid Robots
We are pleased to announce ControlIt!, a new open-source software framework for Whole-Body Operational Space Control. It is offered with an LGPL v2.1 open source license. Installation and usage instructions are available here:
ControlIt! Website.The draft paper describing the software framework can be found clicking below:
ControlIt! Website.The draft paper describing the software framework can be found clicking below:
PhD Students Gray Thomas and Steven Jorgensen receive NASA Fellowships
Our team receives the NASA JSC Ellite Team Award for contributions on the design of Valkyrie
N Steps with Phase Space Planning and Whole-Body Operational Space Control
IHMC Gets Valkyrie to Walk and Perform One Leg Balance. Valkyrie was designed by NASA JSC in collaboration with our lab at UT Austin
The Valkyrie robot at IHMC taking some steps and doing one legged balance routine. The robot is designed and built by NASA JSC in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin. Control algorithms by IHMC. Funding for IHMC and UT Austin provided through the NSF/NASA National Robotics Initiative.
Towards Attractor Based Dynamic Stepping
In this video we show improvements on phase-space dynamic walking based on using an absolute return frame and the addition of Coriolis/centrifugal effects. The description of the planner can be found on Arxiv Preprint