This paper presents a quasi-dynamic gait, called Hybrid Walking Gait, and a new gait transition algorithm for a quadruped walking robot. The Hybrid Walking gait reduces the steps of a generic walking gait with primitive foot trajectory generation using some of parameters easily defined. It shows great improvements over existing ones in terms of higher mobility, less complexity to define the motion, and smooth body movements that affect to the stability of the robot. The Gait Transition pattern generated with the Hybrid Walking Gait guarantees stability as good as that of a traditional walking gait and high mobility such as the dynamic trot gait. We perform experiments with a quadruped robot called "Artificial Digitigrade for Natural Environments Version III", and validate the effectiveness of our proposed gait patterns over several types of terrains.
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