The interest in exploring planetary bodies for scientific investigation and in situ resource
utilization is ever-rising. Yet, many sites of interest are inaccessible to state-of-the-art …

Abstract Covid-19, the global pandemic, has taught us the importance of contactless delivery
service and robotic automation. Using self-driving delivery robots can provide flexibility for …

Considering autonomous delivery robots in urban logistics has attracted a great deal of
attention in recent years. In the meantime, new technology has led to new operational …

As an important basic component of quadruped robots, mechanical legs provide the robots
with excellent maneuverability and versatility, which determine the core application …

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

The flexibility of gait and trajectory planning with heavy payload are the main challenges for
legged stable walking of hexapod robots in unstructured terrain, especially in time-varying …

Mobile robots build on accurate, real-time mapping with onboard range sensors to achieve
autonomous navigation over rough terrain. Existing approaches often rely on absolute …

A milestone in vertebrate evolution, the transition from water to land, owes its success to the
development of a sprawling body plan that enabled an amphibious lifestyle. The body …

Applications of mobile ground robots demand high speed and agility while navigating in
complex indoor environments. These present an ongoing challenge in mobile robotics. A …

This paper provides a legged stable walking control strategy based on multi-sensor
information feedback about BIT-NAZA-II, a large load parallel hexapod wheel-legged robot …