Title
Dynamic Locomotion Gaits Of A Compliantly Actuated Quadruped With Slip-Like Articulated Legs Embodied In The Mechanical Design
Abstract
The spring loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) model has been extensively shown to be fundamental for legged locomotion. However, the way this low-order template model dynamics is anchored in high-dimensional articulated multibody systems describing compliantly actuated robots (and animals) is not obvious and has not been shown so far. In this letter, an articulated leg mechanism and a corresponding quadrupedal robot design are introduced, for which the natural oscillation dynamics is structurally equivalent to the SLIP. On the basis of this property, computationally simple and robust control methods are proposed, which implement the gaits of pronking, trotting, and dynamic walking in the real robotic system. Experiments with a compliantly actuated quadruped featuring only low-performance electrical drives validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/LRA.2018.2857511
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Compliance and impedance control, legged robots, dynamics embodiment, spring loaded inverted pendulum
Inverted pendulum,Gait,Control theory,Slip (materials science),Quadrupedalism,Control engineering,Leg mechanism,Engineering,Robot,Robust control,Servomotor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
4
2377-3766
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominic Lakatos1478.03
Kai Ploeger200.68
Florian Christoph Loeffl323.50
Daniel Seidel400.68
Florian Schmidt526834.52
Thomas Gumpert600.34
Freia John700.34
T. Bertram892.23
Alin Albu-Schaffer92831262.17