• DocumentCode
    2705343
  • Title

    Design of a novel frog-inspired hopping leg

  • Author

    Zhang, Wei ; Fan, Jizhuang ; Cai, Hegao

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Robot. & Syst., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    6-8 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    277
  • Lastpage
    282
  • Abstract
    A frog-inspired hopping leg is designed in this paper, and the pneumatic muscle is utilized as the driver. The muscles are bioarticular muscles which can not only increase the range of the joint angle, but also make the robot compliance more similar to real frogs. Kinematics analysis of pneumatic muscles is accomplished, and the experiments of motion simulations based on virtual components are given, as the theoretical basis of further design of the control system.
  • Keywords
    compliance control; control system synthesis; legged locomotion; pneumatic drives; robot kinematics; bioarticular muscles; control system design; frog-inspired hopping leg design; joint angle; kinematic analysis; motion simulation; pneumatic muscle; robot compliance; virtual components; Force; Hip; Joints; Kinematics; Knee; Muscles; Robots; Bioarticular muscle; Frog-inspired robot; Hopping robot; Pneumatic muscle; kinematics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information and Automation (ICIA), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shenyang
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2238-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2236-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICInfA.2012.6246818
  • Filename
    6246818