Multi-body Dynamic Modeling of Multi-legged Robots

✍ Scribed by Abhijit Mahapatra, Shibendu Shekhar Roy, Dilip Kumar Pratihar

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Series: Cognitive Intelligence and Robotics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes the development of an integrated approach for generating the path and gait of realistic hexapod robotic systems. It discusses in detail locomation with straight-ahead, crab and turning motion capabilities in varying terrains, like sloping surfaces, staircases, and various user-defined rough terrains. It also presents computer simulations and validation using Virtual Prototyping (VP) tools and real-world experiments.

The book also explores improving solutions by applying the developed nonlinear, constrained inverse dynamics model of the system formulated as a coupled dynamical problem based on the Newton–Euler (NE) approach and taking into account realistic environmental conditions. The approach is developed on the basis of rigid multi-body modelling and the concept that there is no change in the configuration of the system in the short time span of collisions.