ENGLISH

Delft Pneumatic Bipeds

By Martijn Wisse , Richard Q. van der Linde (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2007
ISBN
978-3-540-72807-8, 978-3-540-72808-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-72808-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4717577 bytes)
Series
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 34
Edition
1
Pages
140\142
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Automation and Robotics; Control Engineering; ArtiControl

Description

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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