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Climbing and Walking Robots: towards New Applications

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Houxiang Zhang
Houxiang Zhang

Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway

Published01 October 2007

Doi10.5772/47

ISBN978-3-902613-16-5

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-5815-8

Copyright year2007

Number of pages548

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Mechanics and Simulation of Six-Legged Walking Robots

By Giorgio Figliolini and Pierluigi Rea

4,703
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3. Modular Walking Robots

By Ion Ion, Ion Simionescu, Adrian Curaj and Alexandru Marin

1,992
1
2,404
1
4,345
1
6. Amphibious NDT Robots

By Tariq P. Sattar, Hernando E. Leon-Rodriguez and Jianzhong Shang

6,039
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7. Test Methods and Knowledge Representation for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

By Craig Schlenoff, Elena Messina, Alan Lytle, Brian Weiss and Ann Virts

3,429
2
8. Simplified Modelling of Legs Dynamics on Quadruped Robots' Force Control Approach

By Jose L. Silvino, Peterson Resende, Luiz S. Martins-Filho and Tarcisio A. Pizziolo

3,890
3,225
8
11. Ball-Shaped Robots

By Tomi Ylikorpi and Jussi Suomela

4,900
12
13. Dynamic Walk of Humanoids: Momentum Compensation Based on the Optimal Pelvic Rotation

By Hiroshi Takemura, Akihiro Matsuyama, Jun Ueda, Yoshio Matsumoto, Hiroshi Mizoguchi and Tsukasa Ogasawara

2,538
2,637
2
17. Optimal Design of a New Wheeled Mobile Robot by Kinetic Analysis for the Stair-Climbing States

By Chun-Kyu Woo, Hyun Do Choi, Mun Sang Kim, Soo Hyun Kim and Yoon Keun Kwak

2,962
1
10,631
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21. Worm-like Locomotion Systems (WLLS) - Theory, Control and Prototypes

By Klaus Zimmermann, Igor Zeidis, Joachim Steigenberger, Carsten Behn, Valter Boehm, Jana Popp, Emil Kolev and Vera A. Naletova

2,530
4

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