Daniel J. Lynch

Daniel J. Lynch

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Postdoc and teaching assistant at Northwestern University. My interests include limbed locomotion for robotic exploration in complex environments, nonlinear dynamics, geometric mechanics and control, granular rheology, fluid mechanics, and gait rehabilitation and prosthetics.

Towards SLIP-Inspired Hopping on Yielding Terrain

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I delivered an oral presentation of (very) preliminary results on research into generalizing the spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) template to yielding terrain. These preliminary results showed that the dynamics of the coupled robot-terrain system can be quite rich (i.e., complex!) and deserving of closer study, which led to another talk at the following year’s APS March Meeting and, eventually, culminated in a journal paper, published in IEEE Transaction in Robotics.