Multilegged robots have the potential to serve as assistants for humans, replacing them in
performing dangerous, dull, or unclean tasks. However, they are still far from being …

Terrestrial locomotion requires animals to coordinate their limb movements to efficiently
traverse their environment. While previous studies in hexapods have reported that limb …

Legged robots show promise for complex mobility tasks, such as navigating rough terrain,
but the design of their control software is both challenging and laborious. Traditional …

Evolvable hardware lies at the intersection of evolutionary computation and physical design.
Through the use of evolutionary computation methods, the field seeks to develop a variety of …

This paper investigates how an evolutionary algorithm with an indirect encoding exploits the
property of phenotypic regularity, an important design principle found in natural organisms …

Legged robots have proven to be a promising locomotion system, capable of performing
tasks that conventional vehicles cannot perform. Even more exc-ing is the fact that this is a …

A challenging task that must be accomplished for every legged robot is creating the walking
and running behaviors needed for it to move. In this paper we describe our system for …

This paper presents a scheme to monitor the potential of tipping over for moving base
manipulators. The method of energy stability developed by Messuri and Klein (1985) is …

Dante is a tethered walking robot capable of climbing steep slopes. In 1992 it was created at
Carnegie Mellon University and deployed in Antarctica to explore an active volcano, Mount …

Vehicle rollover represents a significant percentage of single-vehicle accidents and
accounts for over 9000 fatalities and over 200,000 non-fatal injuries each year. Previous …