This review article aims to address common research questions in hexapod robotics. How
can we build intelligent autonomous hexapod robots that can exploit their biomechanics …

Autonomous outdoor navigation requires reliable multisensory fusion strategies. Desert ants
travel widely every day, showing unrivaled navigation performance using only a few …

Desert ants use the polarization of skylight and a combination of stride and ventral optic flow
integration processes to track the nest and food positions when traveling, achieving …

Local reactive behaviors endow animals the ability to exhibit agile and dexterous
performance when traversing challenging terrains. This paper presents a novel locomotion …

This paper investigates a path planning approach for the walking and obstacle avoidance of
a blind hexapod robot in various field conditions. Hexapod robots often perform field tasks in …

In an outdoor autonomous navigational context, classic compass sensors such as
magnetometers have to deal with unpredictable magnetic disturbances. In this paper, we …

Common compass sensors used in outdoor environments are highly disturbed by
unpredictable magnetic fields. This paper proposes to get inspiration from the insect …

The purpose of this work is to better understand how animals control locomotion. This
knowledge can then be applied to neuromechanical design to produce more capable and …

Featured Application Teleoperated control of legged locomotion for robotic proxies. Abstract
Teleoperated systems enable human control of robotic proxies and are particularly …

In this study, a desert ant-inspired celestial compass and a bio-inspired minimalist optic flow
sensor named M^ 2 APix (which stands for Michaelis Menten Auto-adaptive Pixels), were …