Climbing and Walking Robots: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Ma (Hardcover, 2006)

Plenary Papers.- Common Situation Awareness as Basis for Human-Robot Interface.- Gait Restoration by Functional Electrical Stimulation.- Space Robotics.- Bio-Engineering and Biological Inspired Systems.- ASYSTENT - Control System of a Manipulator for Keyhole Surgery.- A Biologically Inspired Model For Quadruped Locomotion.- Fuzzy Logic Control Strategy for Functional Electrical Stimulation in Bipedal Cycling.- Insect-inspired, Actively Compliant Hexapod Capable of Object Manipulation.- Modeling and Simulation of Humanoid Stair Climbing.- Design Issues of Spring Brake Orthosis: Evolutionary Algorithm Approach.- Recent Developments in Implantable and Surface Based Dropped Foot Functional Electrical Stimulators.- Fluidically Driven Robots with Biologically Inspired Actuators.- Climbing, Navigation and Path Planning.- Concept for Energy-autarkic, Autonomous Climbing Robots.- Navigation of Walking Robots: Path Planning.- Study on Mobility of Connected Crawler Robot by Using GA.- A Robot that Climbs Walls using Micro-structured Polymer Feet.- Novel Solutions to Design Problems of Industrial Climbing Robots.- Fast Pointing and Tracking System for Mobile Robot Short Range Control via Free Space Optical Laser Line of Sight Communication Link.- Control of CLAWAR.- 4 Legs Positioning Control of the Quadruped Robot by LVS using Stereo Ominidirectional Camera.- Control of a 3D Quadruped Trot.- Research on Obstacle-navigation Control of a Mobile Robot for Inspection of the Power Transmission Lines Based on Expert System.- Measure of the Propulsion Dynamic Capability of a Walking System.- Experimental Walking Results of LUCY, a Biped with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles.- Hip Joint Control of a Legged Robot for Walking Uniformly and the Self-lock Mechanism for Compensating Torque Caused by Weight.- Controlling Dynamic Stability and Active Compliance to Improve Quadrupedal Walking.- Complete Stability Analysis of a Control Law for Walking Robots with Non-permanent Contacts.- Vision-based Stabilization of the IDP Flat Output.- Bus Communication in Robot System Control.- A Hybrid Locomotion Control Approach.- Model and Control of Joints Driven by Fluidic Muscles with the Help of Advanced Automatic Algorithm Generation Software.- Modelling and Control of a X4 Bidirectional Rotors.- Stability Measure Comparison for the Design of a Dynamic Running Robot.- Control Architecture and Walking Strategy for a Pneumatic Biped Robot.- Time-scaling Control of a Compass Type Biped Robot.- Design Methodology and Gait Generation.- Mechanical Design of Step-Climbing Vehicle with Passive Linkages.- Integrated Structure-control Design of Dynamically Walking Robots.- Intuitive Design and Gait Analysis for a Closed Loop Leg Mechanism of a Quadruped with Single Actuator.- Design of a Cockroach-like Running Robot for the 2004 SAE Walking Machine Challenge.- Finding Adequate Optimization Criteria to Solve Inverse Kinematics of Redundant Bird Leg Mechanism.- Integrated System of Assisted Mechatronic Design for Oriented Computer to Automatic Optimising of Structure of Service Robots (SIDEMAR).- The Construction of the Four Legged Prototype Robot ARAMIES.- Application of Waves Displacement Algorithms for the Generation of Gaits in an All Terrain Hexapod.- Extensive Modeling of a 3 DOF Passive Dynamic Walker.- Development of Biped Robots at the National University of Colombia.- Design of a Low Cost Force and Power Sensing Platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Hopping and Legged Robots.