Stability Analysis of a Clock-Driven Rigid-Body SLIP Model for RHex  

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Altendorfer, Richard ; Koditschek, Daniel E. ; Holmes, Philip

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The International Journal of Robotics Research vol. 23 no. 10-11 (Oct. 2004), page 1001-1012.
Topik: legged locomotion; return map; spring loaded inverted pendulum; stability
Fulltext: 1001.pdf (418.28KB)

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We apply the stability analysis for hybrid legged locomotion systems, introduced in our companion paper in this issue, to a new simple clock-driven SLIP model inspired by the robot RHex. We adopt in stance phase the three-degrees-of-freedom (3DoF) spring loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) model introduced in our companion paper to capture RHex's pitching dynamics in the sagittal plane. The coordinating influence of RHex's open-loop clock controller is subsumed into a leg placement strategy derived from a bipedal abstraction of RHex. The "symmetric" factorization analysis introduced in our companion paper yields a necessary condition for gait stability expressed in closed form, which can be imposed directly on the clock parameter space. This represents the first reported analytical insight into how a dynamical runner might be stabilized by a completely feedforward rhythmic limb coordination pattern. Correspondence in steady-state gait location and stability characteristics with an appropriately tuned 24DoF model of RHex provides numerical evidence that the 3DoF SLIP model offers a descriptive explanation for the robot's empirical running behavior.

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