Ascento: A Two-Wheeled Jumping Robot (ICRA 2019)

This video accompanies “Ascento: A Two-Wheeled Jumping Robot“ presented at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada. Abstract — Applications of mobile ground robots demand high speed and agility while navigating in complex indoor environments. These present an ongoing challenge in mobile robotics. A system with these specifications would be of great use for a wide range of indoor inspection tasks. This paper introduces Ascento, a compact wheeled bipedal rob