Evaluation of Hip Kinematics Influence on the Performance of a Quadrupedal Robot Leg

Navvab Kashiri, Arash Ajoudani, Darwin G. Caldwell, Nikos G. Tsagarakis

2016

Abstract

As a major inspiration of biologically inspired systems, multi-legged robots have been developed due to their superior stability feature resulting from their large support polygon. The leg design of a majority of such robots is motivated by the skeleton of vertebrates such as dogs, or that of invertebrates such as spiders. Despite a wide variety of multi-pedal robots on the basis of the two aforesaid leg designs, a thorough comparison of the two underlying design principles remains to be done. This work addresses this problem and presents a comparative study for the two mammal-like and spider-like designs by looking at the joint torque profile, the responsive motion of the legs, and the thrust force applied by the robot. To this end, a set of performance indexes are defined based on the gravity compensation torque, the dynamic manipulability polytope and the force polytope, and evaluated in various leg configurations of the two designs.

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Kashiri N., Ajoudani A., Caldwell D. and Tsagarakis N. (2016). Evaluation of Hip Kinematics Influence on the Performance of a Quadrupedal Robot Leg . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-198-4, pages 205-212. DOI: 10.5220/0005986502050212


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@conference{icinco16,
author={Navvab Kashiri and Arash Ajoudani and Darwin G. Caldwell and Nikos G. Tsagarakis},
title={Evaluation of Hip Kinematics Influence on the Performance of a Quadrupedal Robot Leg},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2016},
pages={205-212},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005986502050212},
isbn={978-989-758-198-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Evaluation of Hip Kinematics Influence on the Performance of a Quadrupedal Robot Leg
SN - 978-989-758-198-4
AU - Kashiri N.
AU - Ajoudani A.
AU - Caldwell D.
AU - Tsagarakis N.
PY - 2016
SP - 205
EP - 212
DO - 10.5220/0005986502050212