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- Add more springs. Adding more springs increases the potential energy storage during loading, increasing the jump height of the mechanism. Moreover, because of the Δθ^2 Δθ2 term, the benefit of adding more springs is quadratic, not linear.
- Increase the spring stiffness. A stiffer spring would increase the jump height of the mechanism.
- Change position of the CAM. With the current position of the CAM, it sometimes locks and the motor stalls. If the CAM were placed in a different location, the motor may not stall out.
- Reducing effective gravity. Currently, we had to insert a counterweight for our mechanism to jump. Another way to reduce the effect of gravity on the jumping mechanism would be to angle the entire frame with respect to ground. Angling the frame at some θ would reduce gravity by an amount proportional to Sin(θ).
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