2025
Load-Bearing Assessment for Safe Locomotion of Quadruped Robots on Collapsing Terrain
Vivian Suzano Medeiros, Giovanni Dessy, Thiago Boaventura, Marcelo Becker, Claudio Semini, Victor Barasuol
RA-L 2025
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