EurekAlert September 24, 2019
In collaboration with universities and industry U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory developed the Legged Locomotion and Movement Adaptation (LLAMA), an autonomous quadruped mobility research platform system patterned after a working dog and similar animals. It works in concert with soldiers, lighten physical workloads, and increase mobility, protection and lethality. The all electric system has high torque actuators and algorithms for advanced perception, intelligence and control for autonomy and teaming. It is designed for mobility in structured and unstructured environments. The readiness of the platform is dependent on its mission, a logistics mission might be ready within the next five years or less, but a more complex mission requiring a higher level of autonomy that does not yet exist and will have a longer development time…read more.
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Command Army Research Laboratory developed the Legged Locomotion and Movement Adaptation, or LLAMA. Credit: US Army photo by T’Jae Ellis