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7617891 Mechanical crawler  
A self-propelled mechanical crawler adapted to move on a medium. One example of such a crawler includes a foot, a wave generator adapted to drive a periodic wave in the foot, and a wave transfer...
7604075 Ambulatory vehicle  
A legged ambulatory vehicle for transporting a load from a first location to a second location is disclosed. The ambulatory vehicle comprises a load that is able to shift the center of gravity of...
7606634 Control device for mobile body  
Ground contact portions 10 are classified into a tree structure such that each of the ground contact portions 10 of a mobile body 1 (mobile robot) equipped with three or more ground contact...
7600592 Variable configuration articulated tracked vehicle  
A variable configuration articulated tracked vehicle comprises a chassis, a pair of right and left drive pulleys, a right and left planetary wheel, a right and left track, a right and left arm...
7603199 Control device for mobile body  
Ground contact portions are categorized in a tree structure manner such that all of the ground contact portions of a mobile body (mobile robot) equipped with three or more ground contact portions...
7588105 Virtual-wheeled vehicle  
A virtual wheel provides a leg pair as a conveyance mechanism for a land vehicle. The virtual wheel propels the vehicle across a surface using a repetitive motion of the legs that contact the...
7581605 Quad tracked vehicle  
A quad tracked vehicle may include a forward starboard track arm, an aft starboard track arm, a forward port track arm, and an aft port track arm. Forward track arms may be mounted for rotation...
7543663 Bimodal conveyance mechanism  
A virtual wheel provides a leg pair as a conveyance mechanism for a land vehicle. The virtual wheel propels the vehicle across a surface using a repetitive motion of the legs that contact the...
7530410 Legged mobile robot and control system thereof  
The legged mobile robot the foot comprises a foot main body connected to each leg, a toe provided at a fore end of the foot main body to be bendable with respect to the foot main body, and a...
7490681 Robotic rolling vehicle apparatus and method  
A robotic vehicle having a body with an internal volume. A plurality of extendable legs project outwardly from the body for supporting the body on a surface and for propelling the body, in at least...
7481285 Lifting and steering assembly  
A lifting and steering assembly for permitting a vehicle to be turned in a small area. The lifting and steering assembly includes at least one turning assembly for being coupled to the vehicle. The...
7475745 High mobility vehicle  
An embodiment of a high-mobility vehicle comprises a vehicle body, a track assembly attached to the vehicle body, arms pivotally attached to the vehicle body, and trackless drive wheels mounted on...
7464775 Payload module for mobility assist  
A ground vehicle and a method for articulating a payload module for mobility assist are disclosed. The ground vehicle comprises a chassis; and a payload module capable of articulating relative to...
7441614 Legged mobile robot  
In a legged mobile robot, each hip joint that connects a body with a thigh link comprises a first rotary shaft that provides a degree of freedom to rotate about a yaw axis, a second rotary shaft...
7424923 Mobile robot  
A mobile robot having wheels which maintain contact forces against a surface even when the mobile robot meets an obstacle on the surface and a body of the mobile robot is forced up against the...
7409265 Leg-type moving robot and floor reaction force detection device thereof  
It is arranged such that displacement sensors ( 70 ) are installed at a position in or vicinity of elastic members ( 382 ), to generate outputs indicating a displacement of the floor contact end of...
7398843 Reconfigurable robot drive  
A robot including a robot body, a plurality of wheels on the robot body for propelling the robot body, and an axle for each wheel. Each wheel is configured to alternately attach to an axle at or...
7384046 Powered wheeled vehicle capable of travelling on level ground, over uneven surfaces and on stairs  
Powered wheeled vehicle ( 1 ), capable of travelling both on level ground and over uneven surfaces, comprising at least one driving tread (BR 11 ) as well as two pairs of front wheels (R 61 ) and...
7380618 Stair climbing platform apparatus and method  
A platform wheeled apparatus that incorporates an intelligent wheel configuration for each wheel in which each wheel can dynamically change its radius to negotiate various obstacles. The...
7366587 Legged mobile robot  
The characteristics of actuators themselves and the characteristics of controllers for the actuators are dynamically or statically controlled to achieve stable and highly efficient movements. In a...
7337040 Self-position estimating device for leg type movable robots  
Based on a detected or estimated value of an actual posture of a predetermined part, such as a body 3 , of a robot 1 and a deviation the actual posture from a posture of a desired gait, a...
7328087 Bipedal robot with storage battery  
A bipedal robot of the present invention has a trunk consisting of an upper trunk and a lower trunk which are rotatable around a rotation axis relative to one another. The upper trunk has shoulders...
7319919 Control device and footstep determination device for legged mobile robot  
A landing position/orientation of a foot ( 22 ) to be landed in a landing action of a robot ( 1 ) such as a biped mobile robot or the like is estimated, and a desired footstep path for the robot (...
7303031 Anthropomorphic robot  
Provided is an anthropomorphic robot having two legs and which is capable of walking upright. Each of the two legs has a foot which comprises an upper plate on which an ankle joint is installed and...
7280890 Method for fabricating sliding vacuum cups  
A surface clinging robotic device. The device includes a supporting structure or base, on which is mounted (a) a lead pivoting support surface, such as a pivoting wheel, and (b) two or more...
7249640 Highly mobile robots that run and jump  
The present invention relates to novel, highly mobile small robots called “Mini-WHEGS™” that can run and jump. They are derived from our larger WHEGS™(“wheel-like lecis”) series of...
7240747 Legged mobile robot leg structure  
A legged mobile robot leg structure is provided in which a lower leg part ( 24 ) is connected to the lower end of an upper leg part ( 23 ) through a knee joint ( 27 ), a foot part ( 25 ) having a...
7221999 Remote control device of bipedal mobile robot  
When an operator attempts to move a robot from a current position to a desired position, she/he operates a manipulator lever ( 26 ) corresponding to a desired direction of a manipulator ( 23 ) of a...
7182163 Positioning mechanism for a vehicle  
The invention contemplates a selectably operable hydraulic means for laterally shifting one end of a non-moving vehicle in order to provide a desired alignment. The present invention is...
7168513 Dynamic legged robot  
A legged robot having a robot structure ( 20 ) in the form of a closed kinematic chain and an actuator ( 26 ) that contracts when activated. The contraction of the actuator extends a foot element (...
7155307 Surface adhering tool carrying robot  
A surface clinging robotic device. The device includes a supporting structure or base, on which is mounted (a) a lead pivoting support surface, such as a pivoting wheel, and (b) two or more...
7143850 Leg joint assist device for legged movable robot  
An assist device is provided with a spring device that generates an auxiliary driving force, by an elastic energy, acting on a joint of a leg. The spring device includes a gas spring having a...
7133744 Information processing apparatus and method, program storage medium, and program  
An input motion acquiring unit acquires a motion trajectory of an object from an image recognizing unit. A dynamic modelling processor models a plurality of robot motion patterns stored in a robot...
7111696 Legged mobile robot  
In a legged mobile robot ( 10 ) having a motor ( 42 ) that rotates the ankle joint ( 26 R ( 26 L)) about a right-and-left axis of the robot ( 26 RY ( 26 LY)) and a speed reducer ( 58 ) that reduces...
7096983 Biped robot  
The height from floor surface contact ends of leg linkages 2 to shoulder joints of a biped robot 1 when the biped robot is in an upright posture is defined to be a value falling within a range...
7099747 Motion editing apparatus and method for robot device, and computer program  
To implement a dynamic, elegant motion performance of an actual robot, a motion editing system is provided which includes a motion editor to edit motions of an upper body and whole body of the...
7076337 Ambulation control apparatus and ambulation control method of robot  
The stability of attitude of a robot can be recovered by an ambulation control apparatus and an ambulation control method if it is lost in the course of a gesture for which the upper limbs take a...
7076338 Motion unit generating method for legged mobile robot  
A predetermined action sequence is generated by using basic motion units which include time-sequential motion of each joint and compound motion units in which basic motion units are combined....
7072740 Legged mobile robot  
In a mobile robot, the actuator characteristics are dynamically or statically controlled, during motions of an entire robot body in the course of falldown or descent, to realize stable highly...
7054718 Motion editing apparatus and method for legged mobile robot and computer program  
A motion editing system for a robot in which the motion of a robot edited is corrected as the movements performed by an actual robot are checked. An optional range of motion data is reproduced...
7013201 Legged mobile robot and method of controlling operation of the same  
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...
6964309 Vehicle with compliant drive train  
A vehicle that is propelled by as few as one actuator through a compliant drive train can move quickly on relatively smooth terrain and can climb obstacles. The body of the vehicle may consist of a...
6962220 Leg joint assist device for leg type movable robot  
An assist device that applies an auxiliary driving force to a joint in parallel with a driving force of a joint actuator between a thigh portion and a crus portion, which are a pair of link members...
6959776 Bipedal humanoid  
The present invention provides a biped (two-footed) walking humanoid robot easily capable of such full body movement as, for example, protective action when tumbling down, arising action and...
6961640 Motion control for a legged robot  
A predetermined action sequence is generated by using basic motion units which include time-sequential motion of each joint and compound motion units in which basic motion units are combined....
6945341 Bipedal robot  
A bipedal robot has an upper body that includes a higher upper body and a lower upper body. The higher upper body and the lower upper body are coupled to each other by a rotating mechanism so as to...
6917175 Robot and joint device for the same  
A humanoid robot including upper limbs, lower limbs, and a trunk. Hip joints which connect the lower limbs and the trunk each possess degrees of freedom provided in correspondence with a hip joint...
6901313 Legged mobile robot and control method thereof, leg structure of legged mobile robot, and mobile leg unit for legged mobile robot  
A legged mobile robot controls the posture of the body thereof in a stable manner using a ZMP stability determination criterion with a relatively long sampling period. The legged mobile robot has a...
6832132 Legged mobile robot and method and apparatus for controlling the operation thereof  
A legged mobile robot is adaptively controlled in its attitude against variable external forces to continue the operation without inversion. When the legged mobile robot kicks an object having a...
6805504 Method and apparatus for flat surface treatment  
Apparatus for printing, scanning engraving or cutting a flat horizontal surface, particularly when the surface is of non-standard dimensions or is supplied in an non-standard manner. The apparatus...
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