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              | Design and Simulation of Legged Walking Robots in MATLAB® Environment : Progettazione e simulazione di sistemi robotici a gambe in ambiente Matlab, in: MATLAB for Engineers - Applications in Control, Electrical Engineering, IT and Robotics | 
            
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                    | Auteur | Liang, Conghui; Ceccarelli, Marco; Carbone, Giuseppe |  
                    | Publié | InTech Open Access Publisher, 2011 |  
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                    | Abstract | In this chapter, design and simulation issues of legged walking robots have been addressed by using modeling and simulation in Matlab® environment. In particular, Matlab® is a
 powerful computation and simulation software package, which is quite useful for the design
 and operation performances evaluation of legged robotic systems. Three examples are
 illustrated and they have been studied for motion feasibility analysis and operation
 performances characterizations by taking advantages of Matlab® features. Contributions of
 this chapter can be indicated as follows.
 A kinematic study of a Chebyshev-Pantograph leg mechanism has been carried out, and
 equations are formulated in the Matlab® environment. From the reported simulation
 results, it shows that the practical feasible operation performance of the Chebyshev-
 Pantograph leg mechanism in a single DOF biped robot. Additionally, a parametric study
 has been developed by using the elaborated Matlab® analysis code to look for an optimized
 mechanical design and to determine an energy efficient walking gait.
 A novel biologically inspired tripod walking robot is proposed by defining suitable design
 and operation solution for leg mechanism. Simulation results show the proposed design
 performs a tripod walking gait successfully. Operation performance of the leg mechanisms
 and the tripod walking robot are reported and discussed by using results from Matlab®
 simulations.
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