... made and make up 58.3% of the robot’s weight. One of the primary benefits of utilizing legged locomotion is the ability to handle rough terrain. When navigating unstructured environments, flexibility in locomotive behaviors, and robust sensing are highly valued. LLAMA is a large quadrupedal...

... straightforward. The nature of the IMPASS’ locomotion is revealed through the mobility analysis and the theoretical results are validated with an experimental prototype. 09 09 2010 15 07 2011 26 09 2011 26 09 2011 legged locomotion robot dynamics mobility analysis mobile robots...

... systems legged locomotion nonlinear equations 29 09 2010 07 11 2010 14 01 2011 14 01 2011 Hopkins , J. K. , Spranklin , B. W. , and Gupta , S. K. , 2009 , “ A Survey of Snake-Inspired Robot Designs ,” Bioinspiration & Biomimetics , 4 ( 2 ), p...

... 10 01 2011 actuators cameras fibres humanoid robots legged locomotion microcontrollers MIS devices nonlinear dynamical systems pulleys shape memory effects wires humanoid facial expression artificial skin shape memory alloy Small biped humanoid robots that can...

... is obtained. A proof-of-concept prototype robot is designed, built, and tested. Experiments demonstrate the feasibility of the design concept and verify the analytical results. bridges (structures) condition monitoring industrial robots inspection legged locomotion permanent magnets position control...

.... In order to improve future actuator versions, it is useful to understand the energy loss during hybrid operations. As an example, compression thrusting requires a certain power from the electric motor. If the actuator is to be used for legged locomotion, it should be efficient enough to warrant its use...

... ) + γ 3 2 ( x 0 , x 3 ) ) ] + 4 α 4 2 ( x 0 , x 3 ) = 0 29 03 2009 19 11 2009 19 04 2010 19 04 2010 geometry legged locomotion manipulator kinematics motion control polynomials kinematics direct parallel...

... flexible-joint manipulator through the singular position. 16 12 2008 16 10 2009 15 04 2010 15 04 2010 end effectors flexible manipulators legged locomotion manipulator dynamics position control shear modulus parallel manipulators elasticity singularity dynamics...

.... Simplified model of right leg of the biped robot Geometric relations of the robot’s segment links 11 06 2008 05 10 2009 23 02 2010 23 02 2010 humanoid robots legged locomotion position control sensors imitation control biped robot wearable motion sensor...

... to obtain closed-form solutions. More detailed procedures can be found in Ref. 28 . 06 04 2008 10 04 2009 02 09 2009 legged locomotion redundant manipulators sensors STriDER is an innovative three-legged mobile robot that utilizes the concept of passive dynamic...

... machining centers, mining machines, motion simulators, and so on. Gough–Stewart platform roll-pitch-yaw angles theoretical orientation workspace workspace surface legged locomotion manipulators 01 04 2008 30 09 2008 06 01 2009 Jiang , Q. , and Gosselin...

... such as vertical jumping. 22 06 2008 02 07 2008 05 08 2008 legged locomotion mechanical contact numerical analysis optimisation prototypes redundant manipulators robot dynamics Although recent biped robots have displayed impressive movement coordination skills that require...

... , B. T. , 2007 , “ Evaluation of a Prototype Series-Compliant Hopping Leg for Biped Robot Applications ,” Undergraduate Honors thesis, The Ohio State University, Columbus. 27 03 2008 25 06 2008 30 07 2008 actuators dynamic response elasticity legged locomotion...

... Legged Locomotion ,” Comput. Graph. 0097-8930 10.1145/127719.122755 , 25 , pp. 349 – 358 . Estremera , J. , and Waldron , K. J. , 2006 , “ Leg Thrust Control for Stabilization of Dynamic Gaits in a Quadruped Robot ,” Proceedings of ROMANSY 2006 , Warsaw, Poland , Jun. 20–22, pp...