The biped robot pictured above is the work of
Mark W. Spong, Coordinated Science Laboratory, on passivity based nonlinear control of bipedal locomotion. Results rely on some symmetry properties in Legrangian systems with respect to the group action of SO(3) on the configuration manifold of the biped. His work shows how passivity based control can be used to increase the basin of attraction of the limit cycles and provides robustness to external disturbances and uncertainties.

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