PDF-Flexible MuscleBased Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

Frank van der Stappen Utrecht University Figure 1 Physicsbased simulation of locomotion for a variety of creatures driven by 3D musclebased control The synthesized controllers can locomote in real time at a range of speeds be steered to a target hea. Abstract We describe a framework for the automatic synthesis of biped lo comotion controllers that adapt to uneven terrain at runtime The framework consists of two components a perfootstep endeffector path planner and a pertimestep generalizedforce Raichlen Peter S Rodman Department of Anthropology Hunter College 728 North Building 695 Park Ave New York NY 10065 USA New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology New York NY USA School of Anthropology University of Arizona 1009 E South Campu . 15A. Bipedalism. . Legs/Feet and Pelvis. Bipedalism. Legs/Feet and Pelvis. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080529140042.htm. www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/02/genetics.medicalresearch. Crawling: limbs, limbless. Jumping. Burrowing. Climbing. Aquatic. Gliding. Quadrupedal. . . bipedal. Dynamic bipeds. Anatomy. Longer . hindlimbs. , longer feet. Few . presacral. vertebrae. Long tail. Elspeth Wedgwood. University policy. Eligibility. Care for children. Care for disabled children. Care for adults. Other. One application in a 12 month period. Employed continuously for 26 weeks. Change is permanent. About An Incredible Species That Can Survive The Most Perilous . Environments. Introduction. Tardigrades- amazing creatures. They can survive extreme habitats that would cause humans and other animals to die a very painful death, some of them even beyond Earth. Never more than 0.5 mm long, these creatures did what 6 ft tall humans could never accomplish- they can be brought back to life! As BBC explains, it’s not how these creatures can survive and why, the question is, why have we never evolved to do the same. They can survive space, extreme heat, extreme cold, large amounts of radiation, great amounts of geological pressure, and without water. Turns out, other creatures can do some of these things, but all of them?- doubtful. This ancient species has been able to do what we never could… . Navjot. . Garg. Locomotion. Locomotion is the self-propelled movement of an organism, such as walking or running of a character with legs.. A character could be a legged human or non-human 3D character in a virtual environment.. Venkatraman. . Govindaraju. , Tony . Nowatzki. , . Karthikeyan. . Sankaralingam. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1. Motivation. SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data). Exploits data level parallelism. Enabling robots to move. Many bio-inspired methods:. Walk, jump, run, slide, skate, swim, fly, roll. Exception: . Powered wheel. Human invention. What’s the benefit?. Power vs. Attainable Speed . # of actuators. . motion planning. J. . Pettré. , J.P. Laumond,. A motion capture . based. . control-space. . approach. for . walking. mannequins. Computer Animation and Virtual . Worlds. , Vol. 16, 2006.. C. . By Joseph Tracey. , Joel field and Brandon . R. ayner . Unicorns . The unicorn is a legendary creature with a horn growing out of his forehead. The horn on a unicorns head is supposed to heal poison or cuts. People In middle ages used to sell narwhal horns and say they were unicorn horns. . How is it Impacting Student Learning at Morse?. What does . flexible seating . mean?. A space that offers flexible seating.  is one in which traditional . chairs and seating charts . are replaced with . Monsters and “hybrids” (human-animal forms) also feature prominently in the tales: the winged horse Pegasus, the horse-man Centaur, the lion-woman Sphinx and the bird-woman Harpies, the one-eyed giant Cyclops, . (10) Catalyst. (. 10) GN: Unicellular Adaptations. (15) IP: Unicellular . Adaptations. (45) . Trashketball. : Review ALL. (. 5) Exit . ticket. I can:. identify adaptations in unicellular organisms. Catalyst.