We are prototyping a legged vehicle for an exploratory mission on another planet,
conceivably Mars, where it is to traverse uncharted areas and collect material samples. This …

This paper describes the design and control concepts of a wall-climbing robot. It has an
hexapod configuration and it is able to manoeuvre on vertical surfaces carrying high …

The authors are building a prototype legged rover, called the Ambler (loosely an acronym for
autonomous mobile exploration robot) and testing it on full-scale, rugged terrain of the sort …

Through their ability to navigate and perform tasks in unstructured environments, robots
have made their way into applications like farming, earth moving, waste clean-up and …

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 …

Autonomous and teleoperated mobile robots require an accurate knowledge of their spatial
location in order to accomplish many tasks. Many mobile robots make use of dead reckoning …

A mobile robot is a vehicle that navigates autonomously through an unknown or partially
known environment. Research in the field of mobile robots has received considerable …

Dynamic modeling is the fundamental building block for mechanism analysis, design,
control and performance evaluation. One class of mechanism, legged machines, have …

Computer vision researchers have been frustrated in their attempts to automatically derive
depth information from conventional two-dimensional intensity images. Research on" shape …

Discontinuous gaits for walking machines have not yet been properly studied. Research has
focused on the investigation, comprehension, and mathematical formulation of natural gaits …