PhD project, Walking with foot rolling motion on various terrains

PhD project, Walking with foot rolling motion on various terrains

In this project, I implemented the hybrid zero dynamics (HZD) gait optimization and explore the walking generation on different terrains. As shown in the following figure, the optimization formulation contains modulaized constraints, so that it will be easier to customize for different contact sequence.

The overall opt formulation

The following videos show the visualizations of optimization results (which are rendered with Simulink and SimScape Multi-Body), and current experiment results as the validations:

A set of walking motion comparison between optimization results and human walking is compared in this video, where the similar trends and the differences are highlighted and discussed.

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Kenneth Chao
PhD Candidate at Human Rehablitation Group