2026
Load-Bearing Assessment for Safe Locomotion of Quadruped Robots on Collapsing Terrain
Vivian Suzano Medeiros, Giovanni Battista Dessy, Thiago Boaventura, Marcelo Becker, Claudio Semini, Victor Barasuol
ICRA 2026poster
Collapsing terrains, often present in search and rescue missions or planetary exploration, pose significant challenges for quadruped robots. This paper introduces a robust locomotion framework for safe navigation over unstable surfaces by integrating terrain probing, load-bearing analysis, motion pl…