FEATURES 18. Choosing Your Steps Carefully Trade-offs between economy and versatility in dynamic walking bipedal robots By A. D. Kuo 30. Passivity-Based Control of Bipedal Locomotion Regulating walking by exploiting passive gaits in 2-D AND 3-D BIPEDS By Jun Morimoto and Christopher G. Atkeson 52. Passive-Based Walking Robot Denise, a simple, efficient, and lightweight biped By Martijn Wisse, Guillaume FELIKSDAL, Jan van Frankenhuyzen, and Briam Moyer 63 ZMP-Based Biped Locomotion Application of Poincaré-map-based reinforcement learning By Jun Morimoto and Christopher G. Atkeson The HRP-2LR humanoid biped robot By Shuuji Kajita, Takashi Nagasaki, Kenji Kaneko, and Hirohisa Hirukawa 73. Using Robots to Raise Interest in Technology Among underrepresent Groups A technology day camp for vomen, African Americans, and Hispanics By Kelly Cannon, Monica Anderson LaPoint, Nathaniel Bird, Katherine Panciera, Harini Veeraraghavan, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, and María Gini 82. An Autonomous Palm-Sized Gliding Micro Air Vehicle Design, fabrication, and results of a fully integrated centimeter-scale Mav By Robert J. Wood, S. Avadhanula, E. Steltz, M. Seeman, J. Entwistle, Bacharach, G. Barrows, S. Sanders, and Ronald S. Fearing 92. Robotics in the Small Tutorial Part I: Microrobotics By Jake. Abbott, Zoltán Nagy, Felix Beyeler, and Bradley J. Nelson DEPARTAMENTS 2. From the Editor´s Desk 4. President Message 6. From the Guest Editors 13. Industry /Researcg News 16. Education 104. Errata 106. EURON Report 108. Calendar |