Review: Research Status of Miniature Jumping Robot

Abstract

Some animals can overcome obstacles that are several times of their own body sizes relying on jumping,which helps animals increase the ability of crossing obstacles and environmental adaption. Jumping locomotion can be divided into continuous jumping adopted by kangaroo and other big size animals, and non-continuous jumping which is adopted by small size animals, such as frogs and some insects. Miniature jumping robots are classified into non-bionic and bionic jumping robots. The jumping performance and adopted strategies on controllable takeoff, in-air posture adjustment, landing buffering and resetting of existed miniature jumping robots are compared, and the developmental trend of miniature jumping robots are predicted.