{"product_id":"9781846283062","title":"Quadrupedal Locomotion An Introduction to the Control of Four-legged Robots","description":"\u003ch1\u003eQuadrupedal Locomotion\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAn Introduction to the Control of Four-legged Robots\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePablo González de Santos | Elena Garcia | Joaquin Estremera\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Engineering \/ Electrical\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalking machines have potential advantages over traditional vehicles, and they have already succeeded in carrying out many tasks that wheeled or tracked robots cannot handle. \u003cem\u003eQuadrupedal Locomotion: An Introduction to Four-legged Robots\u003c\/em\u003e brings together some of the methods and techniques in this emerging field that have recently been developed in to deal with the problems that currently prevent legged robots being more widely used for real applications. As the first book to focus specifically on quadrupeds, \u003cem\u003eQuadrupedal Locomotion: An Introduction to the Control of Four-legged Robots\u003c\/em\u003e will be bought by researchers, postgraduates and senior undergraduates in the field of robotics as well as engineers working in industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors work at the Department of Automatic Control of the Industrial Automation Institute (IAI), which belongs to the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Over the past ten years, they have been involved in the research of walking robots techniques and have participated in the design and manufacturing of up to six different legged robots (climbing and walking) for diverse applications including ship building, terrain consolidation in civil-engineering works, educational robots and humanitarian demining.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of those robots (SILO4) is the basic model for simulation (geometric model) and experiments (real model) and there exist three replicas of this design which are owned by IAI-CSIC (Spain), University of Bourges (France) and University of Murcia (Spain). This robot is used for education and basic research purposes at these universities. The design drawings and some manufacturing hints are provided on the internet for those researchers willing to manufacture their own replicas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe basic material of this book is the result of four Ph.D. theses and three M.Sc. theses developed and\/or advised by this book’s authors, who have also some international experience: Dr. Gonzalez de Santos worked at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie-Mellon University) as a visiting scientist where he was involved in the development of the AMBLER walking robot; Dr. Garcia worked at the Leg Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a visiting scholar where she was involved in the study of dynamic aspects of legged robots and Dr. Estremera is currently working at the University of Stanford (CA) with Professor Waldron, one of the most prominent researchers in legged locomotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 April 2006\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer London\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781846283062\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e268\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51215273885836,"sku":"9781846283062","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781846283062.jpg?v=1783007027","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781846283062","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}