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A General Model of Legged Locomotion on Natural Terrain develops a dynamic mechanism model that characterizes indeterminate interactions of a closed-chain robot with its environment. The approach is applicable to any closed-chain mechanism with sufficient contact compliance, although legged locomotion on natural terrain is chosen to illustrate the methodology. The modeling and solution procedures are general to all walking machine configurations, including bipeds, quadrupeds, beam-walkers and hopping machines.
This work develops a functional model of legged locomotion that incorporates, for the first time, non-conservative foot-soil interactions in a nonlinear dynamic formulation. The model was applied to a prototype walking machine, and simulations generated significant insights into walking machine performance on natural terrain. The simulations are original and essential contributions to the design, evaluation and control of these complex robot systems. While posed in the context of walking machines, the approach has wider applicability to rolling locomotors, cooperating manipulators, multi-fingered hands, and prehensile agents.
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Book Title: A General Model of Legged Locomotion on Natural Terrain
Authors: David J. Manko
Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3574-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9247-7Published: 30 June 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6588-4Published: 10 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3574-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0893-3405
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 116
Topics: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering