An Untethered Soft Robotic Dog Standing and Fast Trotting with Jointless and Resilient Soft Legs
Yunquan Li, Yujia Li, Tao Ren, Jiutian Xia, Hao Liu, Changchun Wu, Senyuan Lin, Yonghua Chen, Yong Zhong, Jialei Song, Jinyou Shao · 2023
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Description
Yunquan Li and co-authors build a soft robotic dog that stands and trots freely, with no tether and no joints in its legs. Soft robots are gentle and impact-proof, but their legs usually cannot carry batteries and controllers, so most crawl slowly. This dog's legs work by pre-charged pneumatic pressure, storing push in the air itself.
The robot trots stably at speeds up to about twenty-three centimeters per second, near one body length each second. It handles slopes, steps, and rough natural ground. Standing still it bears a load of several kilograms, and it can carry a smaller load while trotting. Untethered speed like this narrows the gap between soft and hard robots.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yunquan Li, Yujia Li, Tao Ren, Jiutian Xia, Hao Liu, Changchun Wu, Senyuan Lin, Yonghua Chen, Yong Zhong, Jialei Song, Jinyou Shao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |