iSprawl: Design and Tuning for High-speed Autonomous Open-loop Running

By Sangbae Kim, Jonathan E. Clark, Mark R. Cutkosky. Int. J. Robotics Res., 2006

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DASH: A dynamic 16g hexapedal robot (2009, methodology): “Examples include Mini-Whegs [6], Sprawlita [7], iSprawl [8], and RHex [9].”
Soft Manipulators and Grippers: A Review (2016, background): “org November 2016 | Volume 3 | Article 69 (Kim et al., 2006) and Stickybot (Kim et al.”
Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities (2016, unknown): “From left: the iSprawl robot with flexible elements to accommodate external inputs and repositioning of the legs (97); X-RHex with variable compliant legs to optimize running speed (98); soft gripper counting on four flexible fluidic fingers lodged on rigid handle (99); soft robotic fish with flexib”
A biologically inspired micro-vehicle capable of aerial and terrestrial locomotion (2009, background): “The more recently developed iSprawl [32] also uses single motor propulsion and benefits from abstracted biological principles.”
Design principles for highly efficient quadrupeds and implementation on the MIT Cheetah robot (2013, unknown): “The COT of representative robots are overlaid [5], [3] to compare the metabolic energy consumption of animals with the overall power consumption of mobile robots.”