<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">we hereby announce that the walking engine that we will use this year is based on code from UNSW Australia's class Walk2014Generator from the 2016 code release.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have removed everything not related to walking from that class, refactored the code, converted it into a B-Human module, integrated B-Human data types, integrated our in-walk-kicks, replaced the inverse kinematics by our own, and made changes to speed control, foot trajectory generation, and balancing so far.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks to team UNSW Australia for releasing their code and to Bernhard Hengst, the author of the Walk2014Generator, in particular!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Best regards</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thomas Röfer</div><div class="">(Team B-Human)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">_______________________________________________________________________</div><div class="">Dr. Thomas Röfer</div><div class="">DFKI Bremen</div><div class="">Cyber-Physical Systems<br class=""></div><div class="">Cartesium 0.55</div><div class="">Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5</div><div class="">28359 Bremen, Germany</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.dfki.de" class="">http://www.dfki.de</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~roefer" class="">www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~roefer</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Phone: +49 (421) 218-64200</div><div class="">Fax: +49 (421) 218-9864200</div><div class="">eMail: <a href="mailto:Thomas.Roefer@dfki.de" class="">Thomas.Roefer@dfki.de</a></div><div class="">_______________________________________________________________</div><div class="">Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH</div><div class="">Firmensitz: Trippstadter Straße 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Geschäftsführung:</div><div class="">Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)</div><div class="">Dr. Walter Olthoff</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:</div><div class="">Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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