There is provided a high-speed and stable robot apparatus realizing stable
walking by surely grounding legs having wheels even on an irregular
ground surface. The mobile robot includes a body having a control device
and an inclination angle detecting device which detects an inclination
angle and an angular velocity, and the plurality of legs each having a
thigh part and a lower limb part. The thigh part is rotatable around an
X-axis, which is a front direction with respect to the body, and around a
Y-axis which is a side surface direction with respect to the body. The
robot comprises wheels rotatable around the Y-axis and movable supporting
parts rotatable around the Y-axis and capable of being grounded on a road
surface, which are provided on lower portions of the lower limb parts.
The robot switches its operation according to irregularities of the road
surface between coaxial two-wheeled inverted pendulum control operation
of moving with the wheels without grounding the movable supporting parts
while maintaining the inversion and bipedal walking control operation of
walking by controlling the grounding of the wheels and the movable
supporting parts on the road surface.