Hopping Robot

Over my senior fall I took 2.74: Bio-Inspired Robotics. The class teaches biomechanics, numerical methods, and robotics techniques through lectures, readings, and labs. The class culminates in a robotics project completed over the second half of the term—my group investigated the effects of Achilles tendon stiffness on vertical hopping. We designed and fabricated the robot, simulated and optimized its dynamics in MATLAB, controlled its trajectory to generate a hop, and presented our work to the rest of the class at the end of the semester