{"id":3636,"date":"2017-03-28T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:12:19","slug":"quadruped-robot-can-change-steps-speed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/quadruped-robot-can-change-steps-speed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadruped robot can change steps with speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, a research group has found that by changing only its parameter related to speed, a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe research group led by Akio Ishiguro and Dai Owaki from Tohoku University in Japan demonstrated that a quadruped robot\u2014which has four legs\u2014can spontaneously change its steps between energy-efficient patterns (gait transition phenomena).<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the manner in which changing speeds cause quadrupeds to change walking, trotting and galloping was poorly understood, the researchers said in their paper.<\/p>\n<p>Through this study, they successfully demonstrated the quadruped gait transition phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>They achieved this by a decentralised control scheme, using a simple local rule in which a leg continues to support the body while sensing weight on the corresponding leg.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers hope that the study will lead to a wide range of applications such as adaptive legged robots working in disaster areas, user-friendly legged entertainment robots and automatic motion-creation algorithms for computer graphics (CG) animation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image used for illustrative purposes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, a research group has found that by changing only its parameter related to speed, a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}