Date/Time
Date(s) - 21 Jun 2017
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location
ME D1 1518
Research at CMU’s Legged Systems Group
Prof. Harmut Geyer, Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hgeyer/
Abstract:
Research at CMU’s legged systems group focuses on three questions: What
are the principles of legged dynamics systems? How do these principles
shape human neuromuscular control? And can resulting insights help
advance humanoid and rehabilitation robotics? I will review our recent
progress on answering these questions, discussing the spring-mass
running theory and its demonstration on a human-sized bipedal robot, a
computational model of human neuromuscular control and its evaluation
against human behavior in experiments, and work on a robotic
knee-and-ankle prosthesis for recovery from large gait disturbances in
amputee locomotion. In the process I will also touch on future
directions and where we envision this work is heading in the long term:
towards integrated human-robot systems that combine advances in
neuromuscular control models, machine learning, and neuroscience and
surgery.