Special Issue “Legged Robots into the Real World”

Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on Whole-Body Control for Robots in the Real World

Special Issue on Intelligent Robots

The research on intelligent robots will produce robots that are able to operate in everyday life environments, to adapt their program according to environment changes, and to cooperate with other team members and humans. Operating in human environments, robots need to process, in real time, a large amount of sensory data—such as vision, laser, microphone—in order to determine the best action. I...

Special Issue on Articulated Mobile Robots (AMR)

With great pleasure we would like to present the special issue devoted to Articulated Mobile Robots (AMR). The area of AMR, characterized by the combination of mobility with articulation property, still remains an attractive field of research and engineering. This substantial interest is motivated on one hand by fascination with a complicated nature of multi-body mechanisms, on the other hand b...

Legged Robot 16 . Legged Robots

In this chapter, we introduce legged robots. After introducing the history of legged robot research in Sect. 16.1, we start to discuss hopping robots and analyze a simple passive walker as a typical cycling walking robot in Sect. 16.2; the Poincaré map is one of the most important tools to analyze its dynamics and stability. In Sect. 16.3, the dynamics and control of general biped robots are di...

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