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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.

Mobile robots. --- Robots --- Bipedalism. --- Pneumatic machinery. --- Robots mobiles --- Motion. --- Mouvements --- Robots -- Motion. --- Mobile robots --- Bipedalism --- Pneumatic machinery --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Motion --- Information Technology --- Artificial Intelligence --- Bipedal locomotion --- Bipedal posture --- Bipedal walking --- Bipedality --- Bipedalization --- Posture, Bipedal --- Upright walking --- Walking, Bipedal --- Walking, Upright --- Movement of robots --- Robot motion --- Engineering. --- Artificial intelligence. --- System theory. --- Control engineering. --- Robotics. --- Mechatronics. --- Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Systems Theory, Control. --- Mechanical engineering --- Microelectronics --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Programmable controllers --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Science --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Philosophy --- Fluid power technology --- Machinery --- Human beings --- Locomotion --- Attitude and movement --- Systems theory. --- Artificial Intelligence.

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Primate locomotion has typically been studied from two points of view. Laboratory-based researchers have focused on aspects like biomechanics and energetics, whereas field-based researchers have focused on (locomotor) behaviour and ecology. Primate Locomotion: Linking Field and Laboratory Research brings together both aspects of primate locomotion studies. Communication between both groups is necessary to identify the specific needs and start up achievable and successful research projects in the field. This volume brings together biomechanists, ecologists, and field-based researchers, who combine both disciplines, and whose contributions facilitate lasting cooperation between the mentioned disciplines and stimulate innovative research in Primatology. The book will be valuable for primatologists, paleo-anthropologists, biomechanists and field biologists, as well as students. About the Editors: Dr. Kristiaan D’Aout is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Dr. D’Aout is also Research Associate for the Locomorph Project and Coordinator of Biodynamics Research at the Centre for Research and Conservation at the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium. Evie E. Vereecke is part of the Primate Evolution and Morphology Group, School for Biomedical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK; and Laboratory for Functional Morphology, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Primates -- Behavior -- Congresses. --- Primates -- Evolution -- Congresses. --- Primates -- Locomotion -- Congresses. --- Primates -- Locomotion. --- Primates --- Bipedalism --- Movement --- Mammals --- Physical Examination --- Physiological Processes --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Vertebrates --- Musculoskeletal Physiological Processes --- Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena --- Physiological Phenomena --- Diagnosis --- Chordata --- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Animals --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Eukaryota --- Locomotion --- Gait --- Organisms --- Biology --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Evolution --- Locomotion. --- Quadrumana --- Life sciences. --- Developmental biology. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Animal anatomy. --- Animal physiology. --- Anthropology. --- Life Sciences. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology. --- Animal Physiology. --- Developmental Biology. --- Human beings --- Animal physiology --- Anatomy --- Animal anatomy --- Physiology --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Development (Biology) --- Growth --- Ontogeny --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Evolution (Biology). --- Morphology (Animals). --- Animal morphology --- Body form in animals --- Morphology --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences