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  title info:
    title: Quadrupedal Locomotion
    sub title: An Introduction to the Control of Four-legged Robots
  name:
    name part: Gonzalez de Santos, Pablo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Garcia, Elena.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Estremera, Joaquin.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 268 p. online resource.
  abstract: Walking machines have advantages over traditional vehicles, and they have already succeeded in carrying out many tasks that wheeled or tracked robots cannot handle. Nevertheless, their use in industry and services is currently limited in scope. Quadrupedal Locomotion: An Introduction to the Control of Four-legged Robots brings together some of the methods and techniques in this emerging field that have recently been developed in an effort to deal with the problems that currently prevent legged robots being more widely used for real applications. Quadrupedal Locomotion: An Introduction to the Control of Four-legged Robots illustrates the appropriate algorithms and methods through a discussion of simulation and experiments that have been tested on a real machine, the SILO4 walking robot. Data from the experiments can be found on-line at http://www.iai.csic.es/users/silo4/. This book is divided into two parts: the first part, Walking Measurements and Algorithms, introduces the historical development of quadrupeds, their advantages/disadvantages and potential uses, and the trade-off between quadrupeds and hexapods. The second part, Control Techniques, concentrates on general techniques that have been specifically applied to legged robots, including kinematic and dynamic models, soft computing techniques to increase speed, virtual sensors that help reduce the electronic burden of the machine, and software simulators to study and test certain robot properties. As the first book to focus specifically on quadrupeds, Quadrupedal Locomotion: An Introduction to the Control of Four-legged Robots will be suitable for researchers, postgraduates and senior undergraduates in the field of robotics as well as engineers working in industry.
  table of contents: Walking Measurements and Algorithms -- Walking Robots -- Stability in Walking Robots -- Generation of Periodic Gaits -- Generation of Non-periodic Gaits -- New Approaches to Stability -- Control Techniques -- Kinematics and Dynamics -- Improving Leg Speed by Soft Computing Techniques -- Virtual Sensors for Walking Robots -- Human-machine Interfaces -- The SILO4 Walking Robot -- Simulation Software for Walking Robots.
  note: by Pablo Gonzalez de Santos, Elena Garcia, Joaquin Estremera.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Control engineering
  subject:
    topic: Robotics
  subject:
    topic: Mechatronics
  subject:
    topic: Automation
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Robotics and Automation
  subject:
    topic: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  classification: TJ210.2-211.495
  classification: T59.5
  classification: 629.892
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781846283079
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-307-8
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