Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a global challenge faced by people all over the world. Social distancing been proved to be an effective practice reduce spread of COVID-19. Against this backdrop, we propose that surveillance robots can not only monitor but also promote social distancing. Robots flexibly deployed and they take precautionary actions remind practicing In pa...

To ensure that the robot can follow planned trajectory, smooth switching between swinging legs and a transition of motion process is realised. The previous planning work analysed, method for improving optimisation objective function constraint conditions proposed to eliminate sudden change acceleration reduce peak value change. This eliminates impact phenomenon in motor drive reduces energy con...

Legged robots offer the potential to navigate a wide variety of terrains that are inaccessible to wheeled vehicles. In this paper we consider the planning and control tasks of navigating a quadruped robot over a wide variety of challenging terrain, including terrain which it has not seen until run-time. We present a software architecture that makes use of both static and dynamic gaits, as well ...

In this paper, we investigate the energetics of constant height level bounding gaits in quadruped robots with asymmetric body-mass distribution along the longitudinal axis. Analytical expressions for mechanical specific resistance for two cases of bounding are derived: bounding with equal front and rear leg step lengths, and bounding with unequal front and rear leg step lengths. Specific resist...

For a robot in a dynamic environment, the ability to detect motion is crucial. Although legs are arguably the most versatile means of locomotion for a robot, and thus the best suited to an unknown or changing domain, existing methods for motion detection either require that the robot have wheels or that its walking be extremely slow and tightly constrained. This paper presents a method for dete...

In order for it to achieve its tasks in an effective manner an autonomous mobile robot must be able to detect collisions and recover from them quickly. This paper proposes a new solution to the problem of detecting collisions during omnidirectional motion of a quadruped robot with an internal accelerometer considering it as an instance of general signal processing and statistical anomaly detect...