Samuel Danquah

Stephanie Witherspoon

Experimental Bipedal Walking Robots

Abstract:
Over the past few years, science and engineering have greatly advanced the field of robotics. The continued growth in computing power and the continuing miniaturization of computer components has pushed previous limits to new levels. There is a growing interest in developing robots able to more fully interact with humans and the environment. Wheeled and tracked robots are limited by the way we have engineered our cities and buildings and also when traveling on undeveloped terrain. Although there is ongoing research in other means of locomotion, the bipedal design has numerous advantages for a robot designed to interact with humans.

The number of research and development projects aimed at building and programming bipedal and humanoid robots has been increasing at a rapid rate during the last few years. In this project, we incorporated bipedal robotics research being done in the AMBER Lab at Texas A&M into the Robotics and Automation syllabus taught at the high school.

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