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Bioinspiration and
Robotics Walking
and Climbing
Robots
Maki K. Habib
Bioinspiration and Robotics Walking and Climbing Robots
Edited by Maki K. Habib
ISBN 978-3-902613-15-8, 544 pages,  Publishing date: September 2007
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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
Downloads 600
02 Locomotion of an Underactuated Biped Robot Using a Tail
Fernando Juan Berenguer and Felix Monasterio-Huelin
Downloads 690
05 Research on Hexapod Walking Bio-robot's Workspace and Flexibility
Baoling Han, Qingsheng Luo, Xiaochuan Zhao and Qiuli Wang
Downloads 873
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
Downloads 596
09 Climbing Service Robots for Improving Safety in Building Maintenance Industry
Bing L. Luk, Louis K. P. Liu and Arthur A. Collie
Downloads 648
10 Gait Programming for Multi-Legged Robot Climbing on Walls and Ceilings
Jinwu Qian, Zhen Zhang and Li Ma
Downloads 774
11 Armless Climbing and Walking in Robotics
Maki K. Rashid
Downloads 677
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
Downloads 669
13 Climbing with Parallel Robots
R. Saltaren, R. Aracil, O. Reinoso and E. Yime
Downloads 738
14 Gait Synthesis in Legged Robot Locomotion using a CPG-Based Model
J. Cappelletto, P. Estévez, J. C. Grieco and W. Medina-Meléndez and G. Fernández-López
Downloads 786
16 Space Exploration - Towards Bio-inspired Climbing Robots
Carlo Menon, Michael Murphy, Metin Sitti and Nicholas Lan
Downloads 856
17 Biologically Inspired Robots
Fred Delcomyn
Downloads 3377
18 Study on Locomotion of a Crawling Robot for Adaptation to the Environment
Li Chen, Yuechao Wang, Bin Li, Shugen Ma and Dengping Duan
Downloads 665
19 Multiple Sensor Fusion and Motion Control of Snake Robot Based on Soft-computing
Woo-Kyung Choi, Seong-Joo Kim and Hong-Tae Jeon
Downloads 953
21 A Multitasking Surface Exploration Rover System
Antonios K. Bouloubasis and Gerard T. McKee
Downloads 664
22 Collective Displacement of Modular Robots using Self-reconfiguration
Carrillo Elian and Dominique Duhaut
Downloads 621
24 Locomotion Principles of 1D Topology Pitch and Pitch-Yaw-Connecting Modular Robots
Juan Gonzalez-Gomez, Houxiang Zhang and Eduardo Boemo
Downloads 589
25 Mechanical Design of Step-Climbing Vehicle with Passive Linkages
Daisuke Chugo, Kuniaki Kawabata, Hayato Kaetsu, Hajime Asama and Taketoshi Mishima
Downloads 803
26 Climbing Robots
Majid M. Moghadam and Mojtaba Ahmadi
Downloads 1133
29 Omnidirectional Mobile Robot - Design and Implementation
Ioan Doroftei, Victor Grosu and Veaceslav Spinu
Downloads 1350
30 On the Use of a Hexapod Table to Improve Tumour Targeting in Radiation Therapy
Juergen Meyer, Matthias Guckenberger, Juergen Wilbert and Kurt Baier
Downloads 729