Delft Pneumatic Bipeds [electronic resource] / by Martijn Wisse, Richard Q. van der Linde.
Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ; 34Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007Description: XII, 140 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540728085
- 629.8 23
- TJ210.2-211.495
- TJ163.12

Passive Dynamic Walking -- Baps; Pneumatic Actuation -- Mike; How to Keep from Falling Forward -- Max; Adding the Upper Body -- Denise; Sideways Stability -- Discussion and Future Research Directions.
Walking is simple for most of us, but two-legged robots (bipeds) are often slow, complex, inefficient, heavy, and have robotic-looking motions. What makes human walking so graceful? Can this be replicated with human-like robots? Martijn Wisse and Richard Q. van der Linde provide a detailed description of their research on pneumatic biped robots at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The book covers the basic theory - passive dynamic walking - and explains the implementation of pneumatic McKibben muscles in a series of successful prototypes.