dSPACE NEWS 1/2006 * dSPACE GmbH * Technologiepark 25 * D-33100 Paderborn * Germany * info@dspace.de * www.dspace.de CUSTOMERS The Bipedal Robot The University of Linz has been doing intensive research into bipedal walking for several years. The projects include developing new artificial legs and revolutionary drive concepts, and also a bipedal walking machine controlled by dSPACE hardware. The biped’s joints are moved by DC motors with harmonic drive gears. The objective is to produce a completely autonomous robot. Research into walking machines has increased greatly over the past few years. Walkers have the advan- tage over wheeled robots of being much better at maneuvering across rough and inaccessible terrain. Their potential uses include work in radioactive or che

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