Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today

Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today

The experts of animal locomotion well know the characteristics of quadruped walking since the pioneering work of Eadweard Muybridge in the 1880s. Most of the quadrupeds advance their legs in the same lateral sequence when walking, and only the timing of their supporting feet differ more or less. How did this scientific knowledge influence the correctness of quadruped walking depictions in the f...

Erroneous quadruped walking depictions in natural history museums

Acknowledgements This work is partly based on the diploma work of Adelinda Csapó (entitled Biomechanical Analysis of Quadruped Walking Depictions, with Emphasis on Natural History Museums and Animal Anatomy Books. Eötvös University, Physical Institute, Department of Biological Physics, Budapest, 2007, in Hungarian). We thank Eleonóra Szűcs of the Hungarian Natural History Museum for picturing m...

Dynamic Compliant Quadruped Walking

This paper presents a new dynamic walking controllers for quadrupedal robots with compliant legs. The algorithm implements a "walking bound" gait, (running bound without ight phase), requires only one actuator per leg at the hip, and commands a constant hip velocity during stance. The algorithm has been implemented successfully on our Scout II quadruped robot and has yielded stable walking for ...

Study on Quadruped Walking Robot

Though development of a practical walking robot is not easy at all, walking robots have many practical advantages resulting from moving functions peculiar to this type of robots including excellent moving characteristics and working characteristics on uneven land. Paying special attention to the encouraging possibility of the walking robot, the authors have been continuing research and developm...

Visual Localisation of quadruped walking robots