Download or read book Quadrupedal Locomotion written by Pablo González de Santos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking machines have advantages over traditional vehicles, and have already accomplished tasks that wheeled or tracked robots cannot handle. Nevertheless, their use in industry and services is currently limited in scope. This book brings together methods and techniques that have been developed to deal with obstacles to wider acceptance of legged robots. Part I provides an historical overview. Part II concentrates on control techniques, as applied to Four-legged robots.