From Motion Explanation to Control Guidance: A Review of the Inverted Pendulum, Compass Gait, and SLIP in Bio-Inspired Legged Robotics
Minimal models have played a central role in legged locomotion research by reducing complex biological and robotic systems to interpretable dynamical templates. This review examines three representative models—the inverted pendulum, compass gait, and sprin g-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) —to clarify their theoretical...