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Locomotion Subsystem for Service Robots 2

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 354-0640/02
Abbreviation LSpSR2
Course title Locomotion Subsystem for Service Robots 2
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Robotics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Zdenko Bobovský, PhD.

Subject syllabus

1. Walking systems
2. Concept of a service robot on a walking chassis
3. KP kinematics
4. Dynamics of KP
5. Management of KP, CPG
6. Statically stable systems
7. Statically unstable systems
8. Movement in terrain, overcoming obstacles and navigation
9. Hardware of walking systems
10. Crawler chassis
11. Flying landing gear
12. Floating chassis
13. Deployment methodology

E-learning

Use of university system LMS Moodle

Literature

[1] Jakimovski B.. Biologically Inspired Approaches for Locomotion, Anomaly Detection and Reconfiguration for Walking Robots, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelber, 2011, ISBN 9783642225055 
[2] Zufferey J.-Ch., Bio-inspired Flying Robots Experimental Synthesis of Autonomous Indoor Flyers, EFPL Press, 2008, ISBN 9780429131226 

Advised literature

[1] Xie M., Dubowsky S., Fontaine J.-G., Tokhi M. O. Virk G. S.. Advances in climbing and walking robots, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007, ISBN 978-981-270-815-1 
[2] Habib, Bioinspiration and Robotics - Walking and Climbing Robots, Itech, 2007, ISBN: 978-3-902613-15-8