NASA Valkyrie Mechatronic Development - UT Austin Contributions on Design

This video shows various stages of the making of NASA's humanoid robot Valkyrie. The Valkyrie humanoid robot was built at NASA Johnson Space Center by a medium size group of of mechanical, electronic and embedded systems designers and with leadership from Nic Radford and Rob Ambrose. The Human Centered Robotics Lab at UT Austin provided expertise in the design of rotary series elastic actuators and inspiration for the design of the linear series elastic actuators on the robot's ankles and torso. In particular, the linear series elastic actuators were inspired by the UT-SEA design developed during Nick Paine's thesis as a high performance series elastic actuator. UT Austin also provided expertise on developing robust force controllers of the series elastic actuators and thorough testing on torque tracking and joint position impedance control.

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Can you guys upload a video with Valkyrie walking? I wanna see how far you've got with programing it.