Benchmarking Agility For Multilegged Terrestrial Robots

• Published in: IEEE transactions on robotics Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 529 - 535
• Main Authors: Eckert, Peter, Ijspeert, Auke J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Animals; Benchmark testing; Benchmarks; Dogs; Fitness; Horses; Legged locomotion; Locomotion; Measurement methods; mobile robots; motion analysis; Optimization; Robot kinematics; Robotics; Robots; Sports; Systems analysis; Task analysis

In this paper, we present a novel and practical approach for benchmarking agility. We focus on terrestrial, multilegged locomotion in the field of bio-inspired robotics. We define agility as the ability to perform a set of different but specific tasks executed in a fast and efficient manner. This de...