biped
There have been sightings of a huge, upright bipedal ape.
Some dinosaurs were capable of bipedal walking.
Kangaroos developed bipedal locomotion long before we did.

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bipedal
Increasingly complex prototypes4 show that passive dynamic walking results in a particularly elegant and natural bipedal gait.
These investigations provided important insights into the mechanics of bipedal walking.
Let us mention that many bipedal walking machines have been designed during the last two decades.
The simplest bipedal machines are passive dynamic9,12,13,17,18 and ballistic11,15,19 walking models that have only few degrees of freedom.
Section 2 first describes two bipedal robots whose simulation models are used to validate the control algorithms developed in this research.
The importance of this research lies within its connection to human gait, as well as to the development of energyeff cient bipedal robots.
The complexity of bipedal robot control is mainly due to the nonlinear dynamics, unknown environment interaction and limited torque at the stance ankle.
Recent work with human infants and nonhuman primates suggests that manual preference may have evolved closely after the emergence and adoption of upright bipedal locomotion.
Genetic algorithm-based optimal bipedal walking gait synthesis link ends making the inertia tensor of the links zero.
Only a bipedal posture frees both hands, allowing them to assume differential functions and thereby strengthen a lateral bias.
The disadvantages of this trajectory-control approach include its inefficiency in actuating the bipedal walking and the unnatural looking of the gait.
Section 2 presents the heuristics of the frontal plane motion for bipedal walking.
The human true pelvis is adapted to our bipedal posture.
Such an understanding will have a direct impact on better design of prostheses and on the active control aspects of bipedal robots.
From this standpoint, the evolutionarily advantaged functions of divided attention, upright bipedal ambulation and opposable thumbs can be seen as vulnerable.
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