Stretch walking pattern generation for a biped humanoid robot

This paper describes the knee stretch walking of the biped robot that has three degrees of freedom (DOF) in the ankle, one DOF in the knee and three DOF in the hip. To create the stable stretch walking pattern, a walking pattern generation method capable of specifying arbitrarily the knee joint angle is introduced. The singularity of the swing leg that can exist in single support phase will be avoided by the motion of the waist. The waist motion is calculated by a compensatory motion algorithm to cancel the moments generated by the motion of the lower-limbs. Through stretch walking simulations, the effectiveness of the pattern generation method is confirmed.