The Roborangutan
Bipedal/quadrupedal robot design
Ongoing
Bipedal robots have many advantages over quadrupedal robots, including navigating environments meant for humans. However, bipedal robots are slower and less agile than quadrupedal robots. It is therefore worthwhile to explore robot designs that can navigate with both quadrupedal and standing bipedal modes.
The Solution
Me and my partner used Solidworks to design this robot. It uses parallel drive, with an experimentally optimized 9-bar linkage. After we finished the first few iterations, and we realized our design failed to balance effectively on 2 legs. We improvised and made a quadrupedal version that clocked in max speeds of 25 cm/s.