Modeling and Control for Efficient Bipedal Walking Robots: A Port-Based Approach / Edition 1

by Vincent Duindam, Stefano Stramigioli

Overview

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major tra- formation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about bythematurityof the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and dependably co-habitat with humans in homes, workplaces, and communities, providing support in services, entertainment, education, heal- care, manufacturing, and assistance. Beyond its impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has produced is revealing a much wider range of applications reaching across - verse researchareas and scientific disciplines, such as: biomechanics, haptics, neurosciences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return, the challenges of the new emerging areas are pr- ing an abundant source of stimulation and insights for the field of robotics. It is indeed at the intersection of disciplines that the most striking advances happen. The goal of the series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642100611
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/15/2010
Series:	Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics , #53
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Modeling of Rigid Mechanisms.- Modeling of Compliant and Rigid Contact.- Modeling and Analysis of Walking Robots.- Control of Walking Robots.- Conclusions.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“This book is written for researchers, graduate students, and professionals interested in robotics.” (IEEE Control Systems and Magazine, Vol. 30, June, 2010)

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