Controlling a Jumping Robot Cube

Abstract

Cube-shaped robot chassis may be effective in contaminated or aggressive environments, due to absence of external moving parts. Another possibility is building coordinated interlinked groups which may posses additional capabilities unavailable in individual robots. Controlling such cube robots may be a complicated problem. An effective movement algorithm would allow to explore the full range of tasks made possible by this design. In this article, we propose a solution for making the robot do a controlled jump.