Delft Pneumatic Bipeds
Walking is simple for most of us, but two-legged robots (bipeds) are often slow, complex, inefficient, heavy, and have robotic-looking motions. What makes human walking so graceful? Can this be replicated with human-like robots? Martijn Wisse and Richard Q. van der Linde provide a detailed descripti...
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Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
Series: | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics,
34 |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72808-5 |
Summary: | Walking is simple for most of us, but two-legged robots (bipeds) are often slow, complex, inefficient, heavy, and have robotic-looking motions. What makes human walking so graceful? Can this be replicated with human-like robots? Martijn Wisse and Richard Q. van der Linde provide a detailed description of their research on pneumatic biped robots at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The book covers the basic theory - passive dynamic walking - and explains the implementation of pneumatic McKibben muscles in a series of successful prototypes. |
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Physical Description: | XII, 140 p. online resource. |
ISBN: | 9783540728085 |
ISSN: | 1610-7438 ; |