Jumping Locomotion Strategies: From Animals to Bioinspired Robots

• DOI: 10.3390/app10238607
• Publication Date: 2020-12-01T18:08:51Z
• Authors: Xiaojuan Mo; Wenjie Ge; Marco Miraglia; Francesco Inglese; Donglai Zhao; Cesare Stefanini; Donato Romano
• Keywords: Terrestrial locomotion

Jumping is a locomotion strategy widely evolved in both invertebrates and vertebrates. In addition to terrestrial animals, several aquatic animals are also able jump their specific environments. this paper, the state of art jumping robots has been systematically analyzed, based on biological model, including (e.g., spiders, locusts, fleas, crickets, cockroaches, froghoppers leafhoppers), vertebrates frogs, galagoes, kangaroos, humans, dogs), as well vertebrates, such crabs, water-striders, dolphins). The strategies adopted by control take-off angle, direction, velocity stability), aerial righting, land buffering, resetting concluded compared. Based this, developmental trends bioinspired predicted.