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Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot

Kovac, Mirko  
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Schlegel, Manuel
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Zufferey, Jean-Christophe  
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2010
Autonomous Robots

Jumping is used in nature by many small animals to locomote in cluttered environments or in rough terrain. It offers small systems the benefit of overcoming relatively large obstacles at a low energetic cost. In order to be able to perform repetitive jumps in a given direction, it is important to be able to upright after landing, steer and jump again. In this article, we review and evaluate the uprighting and steering principles of existing jumping robots and present a novel spherical robot with a mass of 14 g and a size of 18 cm that can jump up to 62 cm at a take-off angle of 75°, recover passively after landing, orient itself, and jump again. We describe its design details and fabrication methods, characterize its jumping performance, and demonstrate the remote controlled prototype repetitively moving over an obstacle course where it has to climb stairs and go through a window. (See videos 1–4 in the electronic supplementary material.)

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DOI
10.1007/s10514-009-9173-4
Web of Science ID

WOS:000275455400005

Author(s)
Kovac, Mirko  
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Schlegel, Manuel
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Zufferey, Jean-Christophe  
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Floreano, Dario  
Date Issued

2010

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Published in
Autonomous Robots
Volume

28

Issue

3

Start page

295

End page

306

Subjects

Jumping Robot

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Hybrid Locomotion

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Sensor Networks

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Autonomous Robot

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Soft Robotics

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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September 1, 2009
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