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Thomas Libby

2 accepted papers

2020

Coronal Plane Spine Twisting Composes Shape To Adjust the Energy Landscape for Grounded Reorientation

ICRA 2020poster

Despite substantial evidence for the crucial role played by an active backbone or spine in animal locomotion, its adoption in legged robots remains limited because the added mechanical complexity and resulting dynamical challenges pose daunting obstacles to characterizing even a partial range of pot…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2019

Rapid Inertial Reorientation of an Aerial Insect-sized Robot Using a Piezo-actuated Tail

ICRA 2019poster

We present the design, fabrication, and feedforward control of a insect-sized (142 mg) aerial robot that is equipped with a bio-inspired inertial tail. A tail allows the robot to perform rapid inertial reorientation as well as to shift weight to modulate aerodynamic torques on its body. Here we pres…

Cited by 16SourceScholar