• Name: Umberto Scarfogliero
• Email: umberto.scarfogliero@imtlucca.it
• Web-site: http://www.stanford.edu/~uscarf
• Company Name: IMT Lucca
• Company URL: http://www.imtlucca.it/
• Location: via S. Micheletto, 3 Lucca, Italy
• Office Location: 424 Panama Mall, Bldg. 560, Room 213 Stanford, CA 94305-2232
• Comment: Working on jumping robots

Jumping Robot at Stanford

• Design of a small jumping robot
  • Jumping Robot Twiki Page: JumpingRobotProject?
  • Presentation on design issues on decembre 2006
  • ICRA 06 paper
  • Presentation_Jumping_03Oct2006.zip: Accompanying presentation

Other Projects:

• Studying scale effects on locomotion: how dimensions influence the choice of the optimal gait?
• See also VerySmallJumpingRobots? for work from a couple of years ago.

• Design and fabbrication of light polycarboante-made biped robot
• Joint stiffness control through elastic actuators
• Spring-damper actuation: how to avoid inverse kinematics
• Adams simulation of a passive-dynamic-walker http://www.3me.tudelft.nl/live/binaries/c4fa06f1-b767-4a67-a19e-ea3356400f06/doc/mikeadams.avi

Areas of interest:

• Legged locomotion in animals and robots
• Bio-inspired robot design
• Robot dynamics and control

Liks:

• Twiki Page: Jumping Micro-Robots.
  • Short videos on Jumping Insects and a selection of articles on Jumping Animals http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Courses/VerySmallJumpingRobots

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• Design_Dec2006.pdf: Presentation on december 2006