Towards the Unification of System Design and Motion Synthesis for High-Performance Hopping Robots

Eric Ambrose,Wen-Loong Ma,Aaron D. Ames,Eric Ambrose,Wen-Loong Ma,Aaron D. Ames

Robotic hopping requires high performance and precision, due to its extreme interactions with the environment. Designing a system that will perform optimally, or even stably, for this motion primitive is a significant challenge. In previous work, it was shown that designing a robot with two springs (one in series and one in parallel with the actuator) could dramatically improve performance. Howeve...