Title
Legless locomotion for legged robots
Abstract
We propose a locomotion technique for a legged robot that is high-centered, i.e., a robot stuck on a block with its legs dangling in air. By using its legs as reaction masses, the robot might be able to rock and roll on its stomach and incrementally move forward off the block, a form of legless locomotion using halteres. With locomotion of high-centered robots using body attitude oscillations as motivation, this paper focuses on studying the interplay between leg motions and body roll-pitch-yaw dynamics. We present results from simulation of two simplified models in which body motion is restricted to the roll and roll-yaw space respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/IROS.2003.1250740
IROS 2003). Proceedings. 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile robots,robot dynamics,body attitude oscillations,body roll-pitch-yaw dynamics,halteres,high-centered robots,leg motions,legged robots,legless locomotion
Robot control,Halteres,Simulation,Control theory,Computer science,Legged robot,Control engineering,Robot locomotion,Robot,Mobile robot
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
1
0-7803-7860-1
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ravi Balasubramanian111315.37
Alfred A. Rizzi21208179.03
Matthew T Mason32102989.62