Bipedal Robot in Wildfire Awareness Report, Action News Now, Chico-Redding, California

Published on May 24, 2018

Video posted with permission:
Spencer Joseph, Reporter
Lorraine Dechter, Assignment Desk/Producer
Action News Now, Chico-Redding, CA

Cassie Blue is walking with control laws developed at Michigan in this publication: Da, X., Harib, O., Hartley, R., Griffin, B., & Grizzle, J. W. (2016). From 2D design of underactuated bipedal gaits to 3D implementation: Walking with speed tracking. IEEE Access, 4, 3469-3478.

Cassie was built by Agility Robotics. The robot's purchase was enabled by funding from NSF Inspire Grant ECCS-1343720 and Toyota Research Institute (TRI). The work on the control law was funded by NSF Grant NRI-1525006.