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How Quadrupeds Benefit from Lower Leg Passive Elasticity
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].
@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}, slug = {how-quadrupeds-benefit-from-lower-leg-passive-elasticity}, 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} }