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Legged Walking Robots: Design Concepts and Functional Particularities

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Advanced Technologies in Robotics and Intelligent Systems

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In all likelihood, robotics will lead to a revolution in our lifestyle similar to internet or mobile phone. In this context, the design of walking systems is currently one of the most invested fields, which leads to the development of new products with large diversity. Among of these products may be well distinguished the multi degrees of freedom legged walking robots and the walking machines with legs having one or two degrees of freedom. Despite its long history, design of walking robots continue to develop and new solutions are constantly being reported. This paper provides an overview of walking robots.

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    Vigen Arakelian

  3. Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Arutyun I. Avetisyan

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Zhang, Y., Arakelian, V. (2020). Legged Walking Robots: Design Concepts and Functional Particularities. In: Misyurin, S., Arakelian, V., Avetisyan, A. (eds) Advanced Technologies in Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 80. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33491-8_2

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