Climbing and Walking Robots

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Plenary Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Common Situation Awareness as Basis for Human-Robot Interface

      • A. Halme

      Pages 3-18

   3. Gait Restoration by Functional Electrical Stimulation

      • W. K. Durfee

      Pages 19-26

   4. Space Robotics

      • G. Visentin

      Pages 27-37

3. Bio-Engineering and Biological Inspired Systems

   1. Front Matter

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   2. ASYSTENT - Control System of a Manipulator for Keyhole Surgery

      • P. Sauer, K. Kozlowski, W. Waliszewski, P. Jeziorek

      Pages 41-48

   3. A Biologically Inspired Model For Quadruped Locomotion

      • B. Hennion, J. Pill, J -C. Guinot

      Pages 49-56

   4. Fuzzy Logic Control Strategy for Functional Electrical Stimulation in Bipedal Cycling

      • R. Massoud, M. O. Tokhi, C. S. Gharooni

      Pages 57-64

   5. Insect-inspired, Actively Compliant Hexapod Capable of Object Manipulation

      • W. A. Lewinger, M. S. Branicky, R. D. Quinn

      Pages 65-72

   6. Modeling and Simulation of Humanoid Stair Climbing

      • L. Wang, Y. Zhao, M. O. Tokhi, S. C. Gharooni

      Pages 73-80

   7. Design Issues of Spring Brake Orthosis: Evolutionary Algorithm Approach

      • M S Huq, M S Alam, S Gharooni, M O Tokhi

      Pages 81-88

   8. Recent Developments in Implantable and Surface Based Dropped Foot Functional Electrical Stimulators

      • L. Kenney, P. Taylor, G. Mann, G. Bultstra, H. Buschman, H. Hermens et al.

      Pages 89-96

   9. Fluidically Driven Robots with Biologically Inspired Actuators

      • S. Schulz, C. Pylatiuk, A. Kargov, R. Oberle, H. Klosek, T. Werner et al.

      Pages 97-104

4. Climbing, Navigation and Path Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Concept for Energy-autarkic, Autonomous Climbing Robots

      • Werner Brockmann

      Pages 107-114

   3. Navigation of Walking Robots: Path Planning

      • B. Gaßmann, M. Huber, J. M. Zöllner, R. Dillmann

      Pages 115-122

   4. Study on Mobility of Connected Crawler Robot by Using GA

      • Sho Yokota, Kuniaki Kawabata, Pierre Blazevic, Hisato Kobayashi

      Pages 123-130

   5. A Robot that Climbs Walls using Micro-structured Polymer Feet

      • Kathryn A. Daltorio, Stanislav Gorb, Andrei Peressadko, Andrew D. Horchler, Roy E. Ritzmann, Roger D. Quinn

      Pages 131-138

   6. Novel Solutions to Design Problems of Industrial Climbing Robots

      • S. Chen, J. Shang, Z. Zhao, T. Sattar, B. Bridge

      Pages 139-146

The interest in climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) has intensified in recent years, and novel solutions for complex and very diverse applications have been anticipated by means of significant progress in this area of - botics. Moreover, the amalgamation of original ideas and related inno- tions, search for new potential applications and the use of state of the art support technologies permit to foresee an important step forward and a significant socio-economic impact of advanced robot technology in the - ture. This is leading to the creation and consolidation of a mobile service robotics sector where most of the robotics activities are foreseen in the - ture. The technology is now maturing to become of real benefit to society and methods of realizing this potential quickly are being eagerly explored. Robot standards and modularity are key to this and form key components of the research presented here. CLAWAR 2005 is the eighth in a series of international conferences - ganised annually since 1998 with the aim to report on latest research and development findings and to provide a forum for scientific discussion and debate within the mobile service robotics community. The series has grown in its popularity significantly over the years, and has attracted - searchers and developers from across the globe. The CLAWAR 2005 p- ceedings reports state of the art scientific and developmental findings p- sented during the CLAWAR 2005 conference in 131 technical presentations by authors from 27 countries covering the five continents.

• design
• development
• navigation
• robot
• robotics
• sensing
• sensor
• simulation
• system analysis

• Department of Automatic Control and, System Engineering, University Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

  M. O. Tokhi

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University Leeds, Leeds, UK

  G. S. Virk

• Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

  M. A. Hossain

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