On the utility of leg distal compliance for buffering landing impact of legged robots

Many legged robots have compliant mechanisms in the distal segments of their legs called distal compliance. One important function of such characteristic is to buffer landing impact at touchdown. However, there is still no general design strategy for it. In particular, nonlinear compliance behaviors...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jie Chen, Yubin Liu, Gangfeng Liu, Jie Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-05-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814017700058