Dynamic Locomotion Poster 2020

How Quadrupeds Benefit from Lower Leg Passive Elasticity

Dynamic Locomotion
  • Doctoral Researcher
Dynamic Locomotion, Haptic Intelligence
Senior Research Scientist

Recently developed and fully actuated, legged robots start showing exciting locomotion capabilities, but rely heavily on high-power actuators, high-frequency sensors, and complex locomotion controllers. The engineering solutions implemented in these legged robots are much different compared to animals. Vertebrate animals share magnitudes slower neurocontrol signal velocities [1] compared to their robot counterparts. Also, animals feature a plethora of cascaded and underactuated passive elastic structures [2].

Author(s): Felix Ruppert and Alexander Badri-Spröwitz
Year: 2020
Month: May
BibTeX Type: Poster (poster)
Digital: True
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
Event Name: Dynamic Walking
Event Place: USA
URL: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~posa/DynamicWalking2020/643-944-1-RV.pdf
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BibTeX

@poster{ruppert2020b,
  title = {How Quadrupeds Benefit from Lower Leg Passive Elasticity},
  abstract = {Recently developed and fully actuated, legged robots start showing exciting locomotion capabilities, but rely heavily on high-power actuators, high-frequency sensors, and complex locomotion controllers. The engineering solutions implemented in these legged robots are much different compared to animals.  Vertebrate animals share magnitudes slower neurocontrol signal velocities [1] compared to their robot counterparts. Also, animals feature a plethora of cascaded and underactuated passive elastic structures [2].
  },
  month = may,
  year = {2020},
  author = {Ruppert, Felix and Badri-Spr{\"o}witz, Alexander},
  url = {https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~posa/DynamicWalking2020/643-944-1-RV.pdf},
  month_numeric = {5}
}