Acknowledgments
Many people helped to make this work possible. In particular I would like to thank:
My advisor, Sangbae Kim: for taking me as a UROP after my freshman year at
MIT, getting me started down this path; for the freedom and resources to pursue this
project; and everything else.
Jared Di Carlo, for the amazing work on the software and controls for both this
robot and Cheetah 3, and for countless hours of debugging and fixing Cheetah 3 with
me.
Jo˜ao Ramos for being an actuator guinea pig and trying these out on Little Her-
mes.
Bayley Wang, for many motor control discussions, help outsourcing machining,
and wrangling Yubo MFG.
Alex Hattori, for help with design and fabrication of the quadruped.
Everyone else in the Biomimetic Robotics Lab: This has been an fantastic envi-
ronment to work in. Thanks for making it awesome.
The wonderful people of the MIT Electronics Research Society. Thank you all for
the inspiration, technical advice, friendships, and many ill-conceived adventures.
Andy B. for keeping me company during all those late nights of machining robot
parts, assembling PCBs, writing this thesis, and so on.
And Ava Chen. Hey, Ava: You’re great.
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