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A passive dynamic walking model with Coulomb friction at the hip joint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2013

Wenhao Guo
Affiliation:
School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tianshu Wang*
Affiliation:
School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Qi Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Dynamics and Control, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: tswang@tsinghua.edu.cn
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This paper presents a modified passive dynamic walking model with hip friction. We add Coulomb friction to the hip joint of a two-dimensional straight-legged passive dynamic walker. The walking map is divided into two parts – the swing phase and the impact phase. Coulomb friction and impact make the model's dynamic equations nonlinear and non-smooth, and a numerical algorithm is given to deal with this model. We study the effects of hip friction on gait and obtain basins of attraction of different coefficients of friction.

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