Comparison of water and terrestrial jumping in natural and robotic insects

Jumping requires high actuation power for achieving high speed in a short time. Especially, organisms and robots at the insect scale jump in order to overcome size limits on the speed of locomotion. As small jumpers suffer from intrinsically small power output, efficient jumpers have devised various...

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2024-07, Vol.1537 (1), p.13-31
Main Authors: Koh, Je‐Sung, Baek, Sang‐Min, Kim, Baekgyeom, Cho, Kyu‐Jin, Kim, Ho‐Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceleration
Actuation
Insect mimicking robots
Insects
jumping insects
jumping mechanisms
jumping on water
Locomotion
Robot dynamics
robotic insects
Substrates
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Summary:Jumping requires high actuation power for achieving high speed in a short time. Especially, organisms and robots at the insect scale jump in order to overcome size limits on the speed of locomotion. As small jumpers suffer from intrinsically small power output, efficient jumpers have devised various ingenuous schemes to amplify their power release. Furthermore, semi‐aquatic jumpers have adopted specialized techniques to fully exploit the reaction from water. We review jumping mechanisms of natural and robotic insects that jump on the ground and the surface of water, and compare the performance depending on their scale. We find a general trend that jumping creatures maximize jumping speed by unique mechanisms that manage acceleration, force, and takeoff duration under the constraints mainly associated with their size, shape, and substrate. Jumping of small creatures demands high power to surpass size‐related speed limits. They employ various mechanisms to amplify power release. Furthermore, semi‐aquatic jumpers use specialized techniques to maximize the momentum transfer from the water. Our review of both natural and robotic jumpers, on ground and water, highlights that they maximize speed through unique mechanisms that handle acceleration, force, or take‐off duration under the constraints associated with their size and substrate.
ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
1749-6632
DOI:10.1111/nyas.15172