“…The body mass is considered concentrated on the hip of the biped robot (Roussel et al, 1998). In (Silva et al, 1999), the body link is restricted to the vertical position, the body forward velocity is considered to be constant and the tip motion of the swing leg is constrained to follow sinusoidal functions. The effect of the walking velocity and step length on the consumed energy is treated in (Channon et al, 1996).…”