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Bioinspiration and Robotics Walking and Climbing Robots
Bioinspiration and Robotics Walking and Climbing Robots
ISBN 978-3-902613-15-8
Hard cover, 544 pages
Edited by: Maki K. Habib
Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing
Publication date: September 2007

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About the Book

Nature has always been a source of inspiration and ideas for the robotics community. New solutions and technologies are required and hence this book is coming out to address and deal with the main challenges facing walking and climbing robots, and contributes with innovative solutions, designs, technologies and techniques. This book reports on the state of the art research and development findings and results. The content of the book has been structured into 5 technical research sections with total of 30 chapters written by well recognized researchers worldwide.
Table of Contents

01 Parametrically Excited Dynamic Bipedal Walking
Fumihiko Asano and Zhi-Wei Luo
02 Locomotion of an Underactuated Biped Robot Using a Tail
Fernando Juan Berenguer and Felix Monasterio-Huelin
03 Reduced DOF Type Walking Robot Based on Closed Link Mechanism
Katsuhiko Inagaki
04 Posture and Vibration Control Based on Virtual Suspension Model for Multi-Legged Walking Robot
Qingjiu Huang
05 Research on Hexapod Walking Bio-robot’s Workspace and Flexibility
Baoling Han, Qingsheng Luo, Xiaochuan Zhao and Qiuli Wang
06 A Designing Method of the Passive Dynamic Walking Robot via Analogy with Phase Locked Loop Circuits
Masatsugu Iribe and Koichi Osuka
07 Theoretical Investigations of the Control Movement of the CLAWAR at Statically Unstable Regimes
Alexander Gorobtsov
08 Selection of Obstacle Avoidance Behaviors Based on Visual and Ultrasonic Sensors for Quadruped Robots
Kiyotaka Izumi, Ryoichi Sato, Keigo Watanabe and Maki K. Habib
09 Climbing Service Robots for Improving Safety in Building Maintenance Industry
Bing L. Lukl, Louis K. P. Liu and Arthur A. Collie
10 Gait Programming for Multi-Legged Robot Climbing on Walls and Ceilings
Jinwu Qian, Zhen Zhang and Li Ma
11 Armless Climbing and Walking in Robotics
Maki K. Rashid
12 A Reference Control Architecture for Service Robots as applied to a Climbing Vehicle
Francisco Ortiz, Diego Alonso, Juan Pastor, Barbara Alvarez and Andres Iborra
13 Climbing with Parallel Robots
R. Saltaren, R. Aracil, O. Reinoso and E. Yime
14 Gait Synthesis in Legged Robot Locomotion using a CPG-Based Model
J. Cappelletto, P. Estevez, J. C. Grieco and W. Medina-Melendezand G. Fernandez-Lopez
15 Basic Concepts of the Control and Learning Mechanism of Locomotion by the Central Pattern Generator
Jun Nishii and Tomoko Hioki
16 Space Exploration - Towards Bio-inspired Climbing Robots
Carlo Menon, Michael Murphy, Metin Sitti and Nicholas Lan
17 Biologically Inspired Robots
Fred Delcomyn
18 Study on Locomotion of a Crawling Robot for Adaptation to the Environment
Li Chen, Yuechao Wang, Bin Li, Shugen Ma and Dengping Duan
19 Multiple Sensor Fusion and Motion Control of Snake Robot Based on Soft-computing
Woo-Kyung Choi, Seong-Joo Kim and Hong-Tae Jeon
20 Evolutionary Strategies Combined With Novel Binary Hill Climbing Used for Online Walking Pattern Generation in Two Legged Robot
Lena Mariann Garder and Mats Hovin
21 A Multitasking Surface Exploration Rover System
Antonios K. Bouloubasis and Gerard T. McKee
22 Collective Displacement of Modular Robots using Self-reconfiguration
Carrillo Elian and Dominique Duhaut
23 In-pipe Robot with Active Steering Capability for Moving Inside of Pipelines
Hyouk Ryeol Choi and Se-gon Roh
24 Locomotion Principles of 1D Topology Pitch and Pitch-Yaw-Connecting Modular Robots
Juan Gonzalez-Gomez, Houxiang Zhang and Eduardo Boemo
25 Mechanical Design of Step-Climbing Vehicle with Passive Linkages
Daisuke Chugo, Kuniaki Kawabata, Hayato Kaetsu, Hajime Asama and Taketoshi Mishima
26 Climbing Robots
Majid M. Moghadam and Mojtaba Ahmadi
27 Mechanical and Kinematics Design Methodology of a New Wheelchair with Additional Capabilities
R. Morales, A. Gonzalez and V. Feliu
28 Pneumatic Actuators for Climbing, Walking and Serpentine Robots
Grzegorz Granosik
29 Omnidirectional Mobile Robot - Design and Implementation
Ioan Doroftei, Victor Grosu and Veaceslav Spinu
30 On the Use of a Hexapod Table to Improve Tumour Targeting in Radiation Therapy
Juergen Meyer, Matthias Guckenberger, Juergen Wilbert and Kurt Baier



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