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Max Austin

2 accepted papers

2023

Design of STARQ: A Multimodal Quadrupedal Robot for Running, Climbing, and Swimming

IROS 2023poster

Legged animals have developed a variety of modes of locomotion to adapt to the diverse and unknown terrain challenges posed in the natural world. Legged robots, however, have been largely limited to specializing in one domain, with few that have endeavored to bridge the gap between two. In this work…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2020

LLAMA: Design and Control of an Omnidirectional Human Mission Scale Quadrupedal Robot

IROS 2020poster

This paper describes the design, control and initial experimental results of the quadruped robot LLAMA. Designed to operate in a human-scale world, this 67kg-class, all-electric robot is capable of rapid motion over a variety of terrains. Thanks to a unique leg configuration and custom high-torque,…

Cited by 14SourceScholar