[HTML][HTML] Development of quadruped walking robots: A review

P Biswal, PK Mohanty - Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, design, development, and motion planning of a mobile robot explore research
areas in the field of robotics. Mobile robots have an extensive area of applications in various …

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 …

Mini cheetah: A platform for pushing the limits of dynamic quadruped control

B Katz, J Di Carlo, S Kim - 2019 international conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mini Cheetah is a small and inexpensive, yet powerful and mechanically robust quadruped
robot, intended to enable rapid development of control systems for legged robots. The robot …

Electrohydraulic musculoskeletal robotic leg for agile, adaptive, yet energy-efficient locomotion

TJK Buchner, T Fukushima, A Kazemipour… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Robotic locomotion in unstructured terrain demands an agile, adaptive, and energy-efficient
architecture. To traverse such terrains, legged robots use rigid electromagnetic motors and …

An open torque-controlled modular robot architecture for legged locomotion research

F Grimminger, A Meduri, M Khadiv… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new open-source torque-controlled legged robot system, with a low-cost and
low-complexity actuator module at its core. It consists of a high-torque brushless DC motor …

Hygrobot: A self-locomotive ratcheted actuator powered by environmental humidity

B Shin, J Ha, M Lee, K Park, GH Park, TH Choi… - Science robotics, 2018 - science.org
Microrobots that are light and agile yet require no artificial power input can be widely used in
medical, military, and industrial applications. As an actuation system to drive such robots …

An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle

X Yang, L Chang, NO Pérez-Arancibia - Science Robotics, 2020 - science.org
The creation of autonomous subgram microrobots capable of complex behaviors remains a
grand challenge in robotics largely due to the lack of microactuators with high work densities …

CPG-RL: Learning central pattern generators for quadruped locomotion

G Bellegarda, A Ijspeert - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present a method for integrating central pattern generators (CPGs), ie
systems of coupled oscillators, into the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to …

Design principles for a family of direct-drive legged robots

G Kenneally, A De… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter introduces Minitaur, a dynamically running and lea** quadruped, which
represents a novel class of direct-drive (DD) legged robots. We present a methodology that …

Critical design and control issues of indoor autonomous mobile robots: A review

MAK Niloy, A Shama, RK Chakrabortty, MJ Ryan… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots that can move autonomously and can make intelligent decisions by perceiving their
environments and surrounding objects are known as autonomous mobile robots. Such …