Climbing and Walking Robots

Behnam Miripour

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Climbing and Walking Robots

Nowadays robotics is one of the most dynamic fields of scientific researches. The shift of robotics researches from manufacturing to services applications is clear. During the last decades interest in studying climbing and walking robots has been increased. This increasing interest has been in many areas that most important ones of them are: mechanics, electronics, medical engineering, cybernetics, controls, and computers. Today’s climbing and walking robots are a combination of manipulative, perceptive, communicative, and cognitive abilities and they are capable of performing many tasks in industrial and non- industrial environments. Surveillance, planetary exploration, emergence rescue operations, reconnaissance, petrochemical applications, construction, entertainment, personal services, intervention in severe environments, transportation, medical and etc are some applications from a very diverse application fields of climbing and walking robots. By great progress in this area of robotics it is anticipated that next generation climbing and walking robots will enhance lives and will change the way the human works, thinks and makes decisions. This book presents the state of the art achievments, recent developments, applications and future challenges of climbing and walking robots. These are presented in 24 chapters by authors throughtot the world The book serves as a reference especially for the researchers who are interested in mobile robots. It also is useful for industrial engineers and graduate students in advanced study.

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Climbing and Walking RobotsEdited by Behnam Miripour-Fard

Published: March 1st 2010

ISBN: 978-953-307-030-8

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39 Crossref Citations

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Open access peer-reviewed 1. A Survey of Technologies and Applications for Climbing Robots Locomotion and Adhesion By Manuel F. Silva and J. A. Tenreiro Machado		3121
Open access peer-reviewed 2. Mechanical Synthesis for Easy and Fast Operation in Climbing and Walking Robots By Antonio Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Angel G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Rafael Morales		3261
Open access peer-reviewed 3. A Wheel-based Stair-climbing Robot with a Hopping Mechanism By Koki Kikuchi, Naoki Bushida, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Chiba, Hiroshi Otsuka, Yusuke Saito, Masamitsu Hirano and Shunya Kobayashi		4159
Open access peer-reviewed 4. Motion Control of a Four-wheel-drive Omnidirectional Wheelchair with High Step Climbing Capability By Masayoshi Wada		3849
Open access peer-reviewed 5. Stair Climbing Robots and High-Grip Crawler By Kan Yoneda, Yusuke Ota and Shigeo Hirose		6855
Open access peer-reviewed 6. A Climbing-Flying Robot for Power Line Inspection By Jaka Katrasnik, Franjo Pernus and Bostjan Likar		4400
Open access peer-reviewed 7. A Fuzzy Control Based Stair-Climbing Service Robot By Ming-Shyan Wang		2616
Open access peer-reviewed 8. Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization for Biped Walking of Humanoid Robot By Toshihiko Yanase and Hitoshi Iba		1910
Open access peer-reviewed 9. On Adjustable Stiffness Artificial Tendonsin Bipedal Walking Energetics By Reza Ghorbani and Qiong Wu		1742
Open access peer-reviewed 10. Mathematical Modelling and Simulation of Combined Trajectory Paths of a Seven Link Biped Robot By Ahmad Bagheri, Behnam Miripour-Fard and Peiman Naseradin Mousavi		2003
Open access peer-reviewed 11. Bipedal Walking Control Based on the Assumption of the Point-Contact: Sagittal Motion Control and Stabilization By Tadayoshi Aoyama, Kosuke Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa and Toshio Fukuda		1733
Open access peer-reviewed 12. Simulated Regulator to Synthesize ZMP Manipulation and Foot Location for Autonomous Control of Biped Robots By Tomomichi Sugihara		1567
Open access peer-reviewed 13. Nonlinear H(inf)˜ Control Applied to Biped Robots By Adriano A. G. Siqueira, Marco H. Terra and Leonardo Tubota		1485
Open access peer-reviewed 14. Method to Estimate the Basin of Attraction and Speed Switch Control for the Underactuated Biped Robot By Yantao Tian, Limei Liu, Xiaoliang Huang, Jianfei Li and Zhen Sui		2730
Open access peer-reviewed 15. Zappa, a Compliant Quasi-Passive Biped Robot with a Tail and Elastic Knees By Felix Monasterio-Huelin, Alvaro Gutierrez and Fernando J. Berenguer		1953
Open access peer-reviewed 16. Quadrupedal Gait Generation Based on Human Feeling for Animal Type Robot By Hidekazu Suzuki and Hitoshi Nishi		1914
Open access peer-reviewed 17. Gait Based Directional Bias Detection of Four-Legged Walking Robots By Wei-Chung Teng and Ding-Jie Huang		1824
Open access peer-reviewed 18. Locomotion Analysis of Hexapod Robot By Xilun Ding, Zhiying Wang, Alberto Rovetta and J.M. Zhu		4772
Open access peer-reviewed 19. In Situ Self-Reconfiguration of Hexapod Robot OSCAR Using Biologically Inspired Approaches By Bojan Jakimovski and Erik Maehle		1836
Open access peer-reviewed 20. Softly Stable Walk Using Phased Compliance Control with Virtual Force for Multi-Legged Walking Robot By Qingjiu Huang		1457
Open access peer-reviewed 21. Biohybrid Walking Microrobot with Self-Assembled Cardiomyocytes By Jinseok Kim, Eui-Sung Yoon and Sukho Park		1800
Open access peer-reviewed 22. Theoretical and Experimental Study for Queueing System with Walking Distance By Daichi Yanagisawa, Yushi Suma, Akiyasu Tomoeda, Ayako Kimura, Kazumichi Ohtsuka and Katsuhiro Nishinari		2769
Open access peer-reviewed 23. Intention-Based Walking Support for Paraplegia Patients with Robot Suit HAL By Kenta Suzuki, Gouji Mito, Hiroaki Kawamoto, Yasuhisa Hasegawa and Yoshiyuki Sankai		3775
Open access peer-reviewed 24. Development of Vision Based Person Following Module for Mobile Robots in RT-Middleware By Hiroshi Takemura, Zentaro Nemoto, Keita Ito and Hiroshi Mizoguchi		1976
Open access peer-reviewed 25. A-B Autonomy of a Shape-shifting Robot 'AMOEBA-I' for USAR By Yuechao Wang, Jinguo Liu and Bin Li		1726
Open access peer-reviewed 26. The Rh-1 Full-Size Humanoid Robot: Control System Design and Walking Pattern Generation By Mario Arbulu, Dmitry Kaynov and Carlos Balaguer		2851

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