Biologically Inspired Approaches for Locomotion, Anomaly Detection and Reconfiguration for Walking Robots

• Main Author: Jakimovski, Bojan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 14
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Automation.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Robotics and Automation.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

The increasing presence of mobile robots in our everyday lives introduces the requirements for their intelligent and autonomous features. Therefore the next generation of mobile robots should be more self-capable, in respect to: increasing of their functionality in unforeseen situations, decreasing...

Table of Contents:

• From the content: Introduction
• Biologically inspired computing and self-x properties
• Joint leg walking and hybrid robot demonstrators
• Biologically inspired robot control architecture
• Biologically inspired approaches for locomotion of a hexapod robot OSCAR.