[ODE] Bipeds and other characters

[Joshua Bongard]

Balancing a biped is no easy task, and is the focus of a lot of academic
research. One of the more popular approaches is to use artificial
evolution to coordinate motor torques to maintain balance, and for
locomotion. If you're interested, there are a few papers on the subject at

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~quee0818/pub/publications.html

and some of my own work on the subject at

http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ailab/people/bongard

...good luck!

Josh


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Frederic Ferland wrote:

> Just to get my brain thinking until I attempt to do it myself, can anyone
> give me an idea of how a biped (or other such character) can be made to
> walk using ODE?  I have trouble imagining how I could make the character
> stay on it's legs and not collapse to the ground due to gravity.  I'm sure
> that the solution is not simply to apply a force in the direction of the
> sky on the body...  That would probably cause the character to go up and
> down in a weird way.  Any thoughts on how this could be handled?
>
> Thanks!
>
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