Quadrupedal walking robot
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasayuki Kamon, Tatsuhiko Kato, So Yukizaki
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Abstract
A quadrupedal walking robot includes: a main body; four leg portions coupled to the main body and configured to perform a bending operation, each of the four leg portions including two or more joints; a plurality of joint actuators configured to drive a plurality of the joints; a traveling device configured to protrude from the main body in a down direction of the main body and configured to operate so as to come into contact with a support surface supporting the quadrupedal walking robot and to move the quadrupedal walking robot in a state of being in contact with the support surface; and a controller configured to control operations of the plurality of joint actuators and the traveling device.
Claims21
A quadrupedal walking robot comprising:
- a main body;
- four leg portions coupled to the main body and configured to perform a bending operation, each of the four leg portions including two or more joints;
- a plurality of joint actuators configured to drive a plurality of the joints;
- a traveling device configured to protrude from the main body in a down direction of the main body and configured to operate so as to come into contact with a support surface supporting the quadrupedal walking robot and to move the quadrupedal walking robot in a state of being in contact with the support surface;
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- a controller configured to control operations of the plurality of joint actuators and the traveling device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.