Code
01SC0325
Duration
01 October 2025 → 30 September 2029
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Human-centred and life-like robotics
- Motion planning and control
- Physical system modelling
- Robot structures
- Sensing, estimation and actuating
Keywords
Robot
artificial muscle
soft actuator
Project description
In this project, a robotic hopping leg actuated by soft artificial muscles will be designed and controlled. The main research questions are (1) how to upscale soft artificial muscle technologies to human-size actuators; (2) how to estimate their state using custom, proprioceptive sensors; (3) how to design and control a hopping robot leg that is impact-resilient.