Energy Harvesting in an Energy Efficient Compliant Legged Robot with Shape Adaptation Ability

摘要: Morphological computation and adaptation, such as shape adaptation, is a concept relevant to robots made of soft and compliant materials. This paper describes an approach to realise energy harvesting and energy efficient locomotion in a compliant legged robot with shape adaptation ability. The relationship between the energy harvesting ability, energy efficient locomotion and the shape of the robot under study will also be described.