Walking is simple for most of us, but twolegged robots (bipeds) are often slow, complex, inefficient, heavy, and have roboticlooking motions. What makes human walking so graceful? Can this be replicated with humanlike 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.
Walking is simple for most of us, but twolegged robots (bipeds) are often slow, complex, inefficient, heavy, and have roboticlooking motions. What makes human walking so graceful? Can this be replicated with humanlike 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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