Multi-Locomotion Robotic Systems - Kosuke Sekiyama

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Résumé :
Nowadays, multiple attention have been paid on a robot working in the human living environment, such as in the field of medical, welfare, entertainment and so on. Various types of researches are being conducted actively in a variety of fields such as artificial intelligence, cognitive engineering, sensor- technology, interfaces and motion control. In the future, it is expected to realize super high functional human-like robot by integrating technologies in various fields including these types of researches. The book represents new developments and advances in the field of bio-inspired robotics research introducing the state of the art, the idea of multi-locomotion robotic system to implement the diversity of animal motion. It covers theoretical and computational aspects of Passive Dynamic Autonomous Control (PDAC), robot motion control, multi legged walking and climbing as well as brachiation focusing concrete robot systems, components and applications. In addition, gorilla type robot systems are described as hardware of Multi-Locomotion Robotic system. It is useful for students and researchers in the field of robotics in general, bio-inspired robots, multi-modal locomotion, legged walking, motion control, and humanoid robots. Furthermore, it is also of interest for lecturers and engineers in practice building systems cooperating with humans.

Biographie:
Jian Huang is graduated in automatic control from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 1997, and received the M.E. degree in control theory and control engineering and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2000 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2008, he was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of MicroNano System Engineering and the Department of Mechano-Informatics and Systems, Nagoya University, Japan. He is currently Full Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His main research interests include rehabilitation robot, robotic assembly, networked control systems, and bioinformatics.