IIC-CS Joint Colloquium
BigDog, a Dynamic Quadruped Robot
Dr. Alfred Rizzi, Lead Robotics Scientist, Boston Dynamics
WEDNESDAY, October 8, 2008; 4:00 pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Abstract
This seminar will describe several ongoing legged robot projects at Boston
Dynamics. The focus will be on BigDog, a quadruped robot that can walk, run,
balance, climb, carry loads, resist kicks and negotiate rough terrain with
new levels of dynamic mobility, robustness and performance. The talk will
explore issues related to the system design, performance metrics, efficiency
and the experimental evaluation of such systems.
Bio
Alfred Rizzi is the Lead Robotics Scientist at Boston Dynamics. He is
responsible for real-time embedded software development and is an expert in
robot control, distributed systems and system integration. Prior to joining
Boston Dynamics in 2006, he was an Associate Research Professor in the
Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directed research
projects focused on hybrid sensor-based control of complex and distributed
dynamical systems. Highlights of these projects include the development of
embedded software systems and automated behaviors for novel legged mobile
robots (RiSE and RHex). Dr. Rizzi received the Sc.B. degree in electrical
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He
received the M.S. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1990 and 1994
respectively. He is a co-recipient of the Nakamura Prize for best paper at
the International Symposium on Intelligent Robots and Systems in 2001. He
currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of
Robotics Research.
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