Dynamic Legged Systems Laboratory
The Dynamic Legged Systems lab at IIT focuses on the design and control of legged robotic systems, particularly quadrupeds. Research emphasizes flexible and high-performance legged designs with accurate hydraulic force/torque control from joint level to overall robot behavior.
Notable achievements
Advanced quadruped control systems, joint-level force/torque control
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026
VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models
Dehao Huang, Aoxiang Gu, Chengjie Zhang +5 more
2026
Native Video-Action Pretraining for Generalizable Robot Control
Qihang Zhang, Lin Li, Luyao Zhang +17 more
2026
Single twistable tendon-driven continuum robots.
Lai J, Liu Y, Ren TA +5 more
Nature communications · 2026