Locomotion

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Legged robots have received increasing interest as they have some advantages that are less easily achieved by wheeled robots. In fact, robots with legs have much better land property than wheeled machine and make possible broad range of building from very small to very big.

They can walk on very coarse environments on which wheeled or tracked robots would be unable to move. In addition, legged robots can astutely choose optimal paths without the requirements for constant roads/tracks as otherwise normally required by wheeled or tracked robots.

As a bonus, legged robots can even utilize their legs as hands to carry out various operations that could not be achieved by wheeled or tracked robots, for example grabbing.

In the HexaQuaBip project, we aim to merge the three main legged configurations, that is to say: Hexapods, Quadrupeds and Bipeds in such a way that with one and single structure the robot will be able to cover any kind of land terrain.

Locomotion project is divided into two areas: HexaQuaBip and General Motion

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