Legged mobile robot and method of controlling operation of the same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6463356
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09718629

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A legged mobile robot possesses degrees of freedom which are provided at roll, pitch, and yaw axes at a trunk. By using these degrees of freedom which are provided at the trunk, the robot can smoothly get up from any fallen-down posture. In addition, by reducing the required torque and load on movable portions other than the trunk, and by spreading/averaging out the load between each of the movable portions, concentration of a load on a particular member is prevented from occurring. As a result, the robot is operated more reliably, and energy is used with greater efficiency during a getting-up operation. Therefore, it is possible for the robot to independently, reliably, and smoothly get up from various fallen-down postures such as a lying-on-the-face posture, a lying-on-the-back posture, and a lying sideways posture.

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SONY CORPORATION1-7-1 KONAN MINATO-KU TOKYO 108-0075
YAMAGUCHI JINICHI5-14-38 YAMADAIRA HINO-SHI TOKYO

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hattori, Yuichi Chiba, JP 11 520
Ishida, Tatsuzo Tokyo, JP 18 750

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