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Developing Planning and Reactive Control for a Hexapod Robot
D. Wettergreen and C. Thorpe
Proceedings of ICRA '96, Vol. 3, April, 1996, pp. 2718 - 2723.

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We have designed an architecture that allows a gait planner to effectively control primitive walking behaviors. The behaviors ensure safe and efficient walking, even without planning; the addition of planning improves performance in rough terrain by allowing the robot to anticipate changes in its gait. We have implemented our approach and demonstrated it on a real robot, Dante II, and on a simulated hexapod with more complex kinematics. With the hexapod we can produce a variety of gaits and stably switch among them. We have attained performance improvement by using narrowly focused planning to guide behavior.

Associated center: FRC
Associated project: Dante II

D. Wettergreen and C. Thorpe, "Developing Planning and Reactive Control for a Hexapod Robot," Proceedings of ICRA '96, Vol. 3, April, 1996, pp. 2718 - 2723.

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