Walknet, a bio-inspired controller for hexapod walking

A Bio-Inspired Model for Visual Collision Avoidance on a Hexapod Walking Robot

While navigating their environments it is essential for autonomous mobile robots to actively avoid collisions with obstacles. Flying insects perform this behavioural task with ease relying mainly on information the visual system provides. Here we implement a bioinspired collision avoidance algorithm based on the extraction of nearness information from visual motion on the hexapod walking robot ...

Research on Hexapod Walking Bio-robot’s Workspace and Flexibility

Because of the natural selection and the long period evolution of various animals in the nature, the animals generates the strong adaptability to the surroundings on energy conversion, locomotion control, gesture adjustment, information processing and discerning direction. The animals’ structure and function is better than the man-made mechanical equipment’s. Therefore animals are becoming refe...

A bio-inspired limb controller for avatar animation.

Modular Neural Control for Object Transportation of a Bio-inspired Hexapod Robot

Insects, like dung beetles, can perform versatile motor behaviors including walking, climbing an object (i.e., dung ball), as well as manipulating and transporting it. To achieve such complex behaviors for artificial legged systems, we present here modular neural control of a bio-inspired hexapod robot. The controller utilizes discrete-time neurodynamics and consists of seven modules based on t...

Foot design for a hexapod walking robot

This article describes the process of development of the robotic foot for the six-legged walking robot Messor. In order to allow the robot to negotiate uneven surfaces and to walk on a compliant ground, the foot includes the sensing device which provides information on contact forces between the foot and the ground. At first, the foot with single-axis force measurement unit is described. Next, ...