Chun Ho David Lo
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About
Chun Ho David Lo is a pioneering roboticist whose research lies at the intersection of bio-inspired design, underactuated control, and agile legged locomotion. His major contributions center on developing morphable inertial tails for legged robots—a concept drawn from animal biomechanics—enabling unprecedented maneuvers such as somersaults and robust stabilization during flight phases. Lo’s unified control framework, which treats underactuation as an inverse problem of an over-constrained Jacobian matrix, has been foundational, earning his top-cited paper 20 citations. His work on bipedal hopping robots with morphable tails (17 citations) and monopod robots capable of somersaults (16 citations) demonstrates how external appendages can dramatically enhance maneuverability beyond conventional legged systems. Lo has also advanced robust locomotion on rough terrains through norm regulation of spring-loaded inverted pendulum models and a novel Sliding Cone Control method. His achievements include experimentally validating tail-assisted aerial reorientation and stabilization, bridging the gap between biological agility and robotic performance. With over 70 total citations across his publications, Lo’s research is shaping the next generation of highly maneuverable, tail-equipped legged robots for challenging environments.
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- 7A Sliding Cone Control Method for Robust Robot Running2 citations · 2024