• OSU 4: Quadrupedal Walking Simulation & Ski-type Gait Video

    Posted on May 16, 2013 by in 2013 OSU

    Summarize my project status ● Hongfei and I successfully have ran the open loop ski-type gait on the Hubo platform. (The video is shown below) ● I have succeeded to simulate the Quadrupedal walking with Beta-DRC Hubo on both Matlab and OpenRave. First, I generated the walking trajectory on Matlab by the upper and lower [...]

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  • OSU 3: Beta-DRC Hubo Quadrupedal Walking

    Posted on April 30, 2013 by in 2013 OSU

    Summarize my project status ● I computed IK for uppder and lower body of Beta-DRC Hubo; however the calculated joint angles require some massage to generate the optimized kinematic trajectory. ● Successfully implemented the quadrupedal walking algorithm with Beta-DRC Hubo model on OpenHubo. (The video is shown below) ● Hongfei has been recently working on [...]

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  • OSU 2: New Cane Design for a Ski-type Gait

    Posted on April 22, 2013 by in 2013 OSU

    Summarize my project status ● We tried to insert the text file that includes the ski-type gait trajectory to the Hubo-plus platform using Rainbow software. The code was successfully compiled and seemed okay to work properly; however ten seconds later since we clicked the start button, all the motors start to vibrate and so we [...]

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  • OSU 1: Arrival at OSU and First two-weeks status

    Posted on April 16, 2013 by in 2013 OSU

    For this past two weeks, all of the lab members at Prof.Zheng’s lab warmly treated me. Majority of lab members are Chinese except for one Indian girl and three American undergraduate students. Because of the similarity of the Asian cultures, I was able to get along with all of the lab members in a short [...]

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  • KAIST 23: Korean funeral

    Posted on September 3, 2012 by in 2012 KAIST

    What I have learned in Korea From the ancient time Korean peninsula had been attacked by many other neighbor countries; therefore Korean people tend to gather together and fight against whenever they face with the international issue. Dock-do, one of the islands in Korean territory, has been issued since 1950’s, that Japan has insisted that [...]

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  • KAIST 22: A Middle School Reunion

    Posted on August 27, 2012 by in 2012 KAIST

    What I have learned in Korea On last Thursday I read the saddest and the most pitiful article on the Internet. It was about the Korean high school student’s suicidal because of the high expectation of his parents on his academic achievement. I don’t think that there are such parents who don’t expect their children [...]

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  • KAIST 21: Trip to a valley & My Future Career

    Posted on August 20, 2012 by in 2012 KAIST

    What I have learned in Korea                During the summer season many Korean people prefer to go out to the beach or the local valleys to cool down. On this past Saturday, I went to the valley in Gwangju City with my parents and relatives on my dad’s side. Despite of the bad weather we [...]

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  • KAIST 20: Visa Interview

    Posted on August 10, 2012 by in 2012 KAIST

    What I have learned in Korea On this past Friday, I went to U.S. embassy in Seoul to renew my American study visa. For the various kinds of purpose many Korean people tend to go to America to achieve their goals, so called “American Dream”. While waiting for my visa interview I saw many people [...]

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  • KAIST 19: Family Trip to Jeju Island

    Posted on August 6, 2012 by in 2012 KAIST

    What I have learned in Korea On this past weekend I traveled to Jeju Island with my family. It was a second time for me to visit Jeju Island since I was in an elementary school. We took a ferry instead of taking airplane to Jeju; and later on I thought that taking a ferry [...]

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  • KAIST 18: 2012 London Olympic

    Posted on July 30, 2012 by in 2012 KAIST

    What I have learned in Korea Finally, the London Olympic unveiled its opening that had been secretly prepared to public on last Saturday morning in Korean time. I couldn’t watch the live broadcast but the recorded video. It was absolutely gorgeous and fantastic to watch. Twenty four years ago, before I was born, South Korea [...]

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