Climbing and Walking Robots: towards New Applications

Edited by Houxiang Zhang, ISBN 978-3-902613-16-5, Hard cover, 546 pages, Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Published: October 01, 2007 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Robotics
DOI: 10.5772/47

With the advancement of technology, new exciting approaches enable us to render mobile robotic systems more versatile, robust and cost-efficient. Some researchers combine climbing and walking techniques with a modular approach, a reconfigurable approach, or a swarm approach to realize novel prototypes as flexible mobile robotic platforms featuring all necessary locomotion capabilities. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the latest wide-range achievements in climbing and walking robotic technology to researchers, scientists, and engineers throughout the world. Different aspects including control simulation, locomotion realization, methodology, and system integration are presented from the scientific and from the technical point of view. This book consists of two main parts, one dealing with walking robots, the second with climbing robots. The content is also grouped by theoretical research and applicative realization. Every chapter offers a considerable amount of interesting and useful information.

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