Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion

AJ Ijspeert - science, 2014 - science.org
The graceful and agile movements of animals are difficult to analyze and emulate because
locomotion is the result of a complex interplay of many components: the central and …

A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

J Aguilar, T Zhang, F Qian, M Kingsbury… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Discovery of fundamental principles which govern and limit effective locomotion (self-
propulsion) is of intellectual interest and practical importance. Human technology has …

An introduction to trajectory optimization: How to do your own direct collocation

M Kelly - SIAM Review, 2017 - SIAM
This paper is an introductory tutorial for numerical trajectory optimization with a focus on
direct collocation methods. These methods are relatively simple to understand and …

Atrias: Design and validation of a tether-free 3d-capable spring-mass bipedal robot

C Hubicki, J Grimes, M Jones… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
ATRIAS is a human-scale 3D-capable bipedal robot designed to mechanically embody the
spring-mass model for dynamic walking and running. To help bring the extensive work on …

3-d underactuated bipedal walking via h-lip based gait synthesis and step** stabilization

X **ong, A Ames - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we holistically present a hybrid-linear inverted pendulum (H-LIP) based
approach for synthesizing and stabilizing 3-D foot-underactuated bipedal walking, with an …

Dynamic humanoid locomotion: A scalable formulation for HZD gait optimization

A Hereid, CM Hubicki, EA Cousineau… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid zero dynamics (HZD) has emerged as a popular framework for dynamic walking but
has significant implementation difficulties when applied to the high degrees of freedom …

On the design and control of highly backdrivable lower-limb exoskeletons: A discussion of past and ongoing work

G Lv, H Zhu, RD Gregg - IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lower-limb exoskeletons are external mechanical structures that support and assist human
users during locomotion. The earliest studies on exoskeletons date back to the 1960s …

Realizing dynamic and efficient bipedal locomotion on the humanoid robot DURUS

J Reher, EA Cousineau, A Hereid… - … on Robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the methodology used to achieve efficient and dynamic walking
behaviors on the prototype humanoid robotics platform, DURUS. As a means of providing a …

Recent advances on underwater soft robots

J Qu, Y Xu, Z Li, Z Yu, B Mao, Y Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves
and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize …

Learning plastic matching of robot dynamics in closed-loop central pattern generators

F Ruppert, A Badri-Spröwitz - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2022 - nature.com
Animals achieve agile locomotion performance with reduced control effort and energy
efficiency by leveraging compliance in their muscles and tendons. However, it is not known …