Abstract
Abstract
Kangaroo rats are well known as representative hoppers in small-scale animals. Especially kangaroo rats show rapid movement when a predator approaches. If this amazing motion can be applied to small-scale robots, they will be able to traverse lands at high speed while overcoming size limitations. To take advantage of hopping locomotion, in this paper, we present a lightweight and small-scale clutch-based hopping robot called Dipo. To make this possible, a compact power amplifying actuation system has been developed using a power spring and an active clutch. The power spring is possible to take out and use the accumulated energy little by little whenever the robot starts to hop. Moreover, the power spring needs low torque to charge the elastic energy, and a only tiny space is required to install. The active clutch controls the motion of hopping legs by adjusting the timing of energy release and storage. Thanks to these design strategies, the robot weighs 45.07 g, has the height of 5 cm in the stance phase, and achieves the maximum hopping height of 54.9 cm.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Korea
Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology
Subject
Engineering (miscellaneous),Molecular Medicine,Biochemistry,Biophysics,Biotechnology
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