The paper discusses the potential of assistive service robots to support disabled and elderly
people. It shows that they have considerable untapped potential in this area, but also that …

In this paper, dynamical systems made up of locally coupled nonlinear units are used to
control the locomotion of bio-inspired robots and, in particular, a simulation of an insect-like …

Walking machines have been attempted since the beginning of the technology of
transportation machinery with the aim to overpass the limits of wheeled systems by looking …

In this paper, the paradigm of emergent computation is applied to locomotion control in
legged robots: the locomotion gait is the result of self-organization of a network of locally …

In order to move, animals in nature usually use a rhythmic movement which is highly stable
and adaptable. Movement controlled by the central pattern generator (CPG) is a …

This book deals with locomotion control of biologically inspired robots realized through an
analog circuital paradigm as cellular nonlinear networks. It presents a general methodology …

This paper presents a method of designing variable structure control systems for robots. As
the on-board robot computational resources are limited, but in some cases the demands …

Our complete dynamical simulation-model realistically describes the real low-cost hexapod
walker robot Szabad (ka)-II within prescribed tolerances under nominal load conditions. This …

Robotics is a very fast-growing field and presents us with both a number of exciting
possibilities and the threat of significant changes to society, possibly in unforeseeable and …

Bio-inspired solutions are often taken into account to solve problems that nature took
millions of years to deal with. In the field of robotics, when we need to design systems able to …