Recent progress in the physical principles of dynamic ground self-righting

C Li - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Animals and robots must self-right on the ground after overturning. Biology research has
described various strategies and motor patterns in many species. Robotics research has …

[HTML][HTML] Propelling and perturbing appendages together facilitate strenuous ground self-righting

R Othayoth, C Li - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Terrestrial animals must self-right when overturned on the ground, but this locomotor task is
strenuous. To do so, the discoid cockroach often pushes its wings against the ground to …

Twisting spine or rigid torso: Exploring quadrupedal morphology via trajectory optimization

JD Caporale, Z Feng, S Rozen-Levy… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern legged robot morphologies assign most of their actuated degrees of freedom
(DoF's) to the limbs and designs continue to converge to twelve DoF quadrupeds with three …

Gait and locomotion analysis of a soft-hybrid multi-legged modular miniature robot

N Mahkam, O Özcan - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The locomotion performance of the current legged miniature robots remains inferior
compared to even the most simple insects. The inferiority has led researchers to utilize …