Dynamics and stability of legged locomotion in the horizontal plane: a test case using insects |
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Authors: | J Schmitt M Garcia R C Razo P Holmes R J Full |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, US;(2) Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, US;(3) Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, US |
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Abstract: | Motivated by experimental studies of insects, we propose a model for legged locomotion in the horizontal plane. A three-degree-of
freedom, energetically conservative, rigid-body model with a pair of compliant virtual legs in intermittent contact with the
ground allows us to study how dynamics depends on parameters such as mass, moment of inertia, leg stiffness, and length. We
find periodic gaits, and show that mechanics alone can confer asymptotic stability of relative heading and body angular velocity.
We discuss the relevance of our idealized models to experiments and simulations on insect running, showing that their gait
and force characteristics match observations reasonably well. We perform parameter studies and suggest that our model is relevant
to the understanding of locomotion dynamics across species.
Received: 17 April 2001 / Accepted in revised form: 20 November 2001 |
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