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Friction and damping of a compliant foot based on granular jamming for legged robots

Hauser, Simon  
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Eckert, Peter  
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Tuleu, Alexandre  
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2016
2016 6Th Ieee International Conference On Biomedical Robotics And Biomechatronics (Biorob)
6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)

Moving away from simple foot designs of current quadruped robots towards a more bio-inspired approach, a novel foot design was implemented on the quadruped robot Oncilla. These feet mimic soft paw-pads of dogs and cats with high traction and soft underlying tissue. Consisting of a granular medium enclosed in a flexible membrane, they can be set to different pressure/vacuum conditions. Tests of general properties such as friction force, damping and deformation were completed by proof of concept tests on the robot. These included flat ground locomotion as well as ascending a slope with different inclination. Comparison tests with the previous feet were performed as well, showing that the new feet have a high friction and strong damping properties. Additionally, the speed of flat ground locomotion is comparable to the maximum speed of the robot with the previous feet while retaining the desired trotting gait. These are promising aspects for legged locomotion. The jamming of granular media previously has been used to create a universal gripper which in the future also opens up opportunities to use the feet both in locomotion and simple object manipulation (although the manipulation is not tested here).

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523788
Web of Science ID

WOS:000392266900199

Author(s)
Hauser, Simon  
Eckert, Peter  
Tuleu, Alexandre  
Ijspeert, Auke  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Ieee

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2016 6Th Ieee International Conference On Biomedical Robotics And Biomechatronics (Biorob)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5090-3287-7

Total of pages

6

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of the IEEE RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

Start page

1160

End page

1165

Subjects

Quadruped robot

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bio inspired

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granular feet

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jamming

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damping

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universal gripper

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REVIEWED

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BIOROB  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)

SINGAPORE

JUN 26-29, 2016

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February 17, 2017
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