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Viscous Damping in Legged Locomotion
Damping likely plays an essential role in legged animal locomotion, but remains an insufficiently understood mechanism. Intrinsic damping muscle forces can potentially add to the joint torque output during unexpected impacts, stabilise movements, convert the system’s energy, and reject unexpected perturbations.
@poster{mo2020a, title = {Viscous Damping in Legged Locomotion}, abstract = {Damping likely plays an essential role in legged animal locomotion, but remains an insufficiently understood mechanism. Intrinsic damping muscle forces can potentially add to the joint torque output during unexpected impacts, stabilise movements, convert the system’s energy, and reject unexpected perturbations.}, month = may, year = {2020}, slug = {viscous-damping-in-legged-locomotion}, author = {Mo, An and Izzi, Fabio and Haeufle, Daniel F. B. and Badri-Spr{\"o}witz, Alexander}, url = {https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~posa/DynamicWalking2020/636-934-1-RV.pdf}, month_numeric = {5} }