Force Control in Monopod Hopping Robot While Landing

Vaidyabhushan Leela Krishnan, Pushparaj Mani Pathak, Satish Chandra Jain

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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
Indian Institute of Technology.

DOI: 10.4236/ica.2010.12011                

Abstract

In this paper, the issue of control of impact forces generated during the interaction between the hopping ro-bot toe and the ground while landing has been considered. The force thus generated can damage the robot altogether. With the objective to control these impact forces, impedance control strategy has been applied to the hopping robot system. The dynamics pertaining to the impact between robot toe and ground has been modeled as in case of a ball bouncing on the ground. Bond Graph theory has been used for the modeling of the hopping robot system. Simulation results show that impact forces generated during the landing has been controlled to a specified limiting value. This model and the corresponding analysis can be further extended for understanding the dynamics involved in continuous hopping of robot with constant height and velocity control.

Keywords

Hopping Robot, Impact Forces, Impedance Control

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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