Overconstrained coaxial design of robotic legs with omni-directional locomotion

Y Gu, S Feng, Y Guo, F Wan, JS Dai, J Pan… - Mechanism and Machine …, 2022 - Elsevier
While being extensively researched in literature, overconstrained linkages' engineering
potential is yet to be explored. This study investigates the design of overconstrained …

Computational design towards energy efficient optimization in overconstrained robotic limbs

Y Gu, Z Wang, S Feng, H Sun, H Lu… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Legged robots are constantly evolving, and energy efficiency is a major driving factor in their
design. However, combining mechanism efficiency and trajectory planning can be …

Prismatic Quasi-Direct-Drives for dynamic quadruped locomotion with high payload capacity

J Luo, S Ye, J Su, B Jin - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent advancement in quadrupedal robustness and agility has shown the exciting
progress towards the early adoption, yet there remains a challenge to enhance the payload …

Overconstrained Robotic Limb with Energy-Efficient, Omni-directional Locomotion

R Xu, J Yin, S Feng, B Huang, H Sun, J Pan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper studies the design, modeling, and control of a novel quadruped, featuring
overconstrained robotic limbs employing the Bennett linkage for motion and power …

Evolutionary Morphology Towards Overconstrained Locomotion via Large-Scale, Multi-Terrain Deep Reinforcement Learning

Y Chen, C Zhang, P Gu, J Qiu, J Yin… - … and Robots (ReMAR …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the animals' Fin-to-Limb evolution has been well-researched in biology, such
morphological transformation remains under-adopted in the modern design of advanced …

Mobility, Singularity and Configuration Analysis of a Bennett-Based Reconfigurable 8R Linkage

H Yin, W Yu, S Lyu, X Ding - 2024 6th International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a reconfigurable spatial 8R linkage is discussed. By adding coaxial joints to
the links of a Bennett linkage, the mechanism is allowed to switch between a series of …