Legged robots can outperform wheeled machines over rough, unknown terrains. Terrain-awareness is required to keep them out of trouble. Researchers have now developed a real-time, dynamic foothold adaptation strategy based on visual feedback to enable quadruped robots to adjust the landing position their feet.
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Fast and Continuous Foothold Adaptations for Legged Robots
Only onboard computers and sensors are used to pull this off. The above video shows the quadruped robot HyQ utilizing this approach.
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