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Locomotion ability, efficiency and reliability are key targets for a good robot. The linkage mechanism for robot locomotion is a discontinuous-constraint metamorphic mechanism. Here we set up equations to present the discontinuous-constraint, point out that driving and controlling are the key points to improve the performance and efficiency of the linkage mechanism. Inspired by controlling strategy of the motor nervous system in peripheral vertebrae to the locomotion, we draw off motor control and drive strategy.
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Dai, Zd., Sun, Jr. A biomimetic study of discontinuous-constraint metamorphic mechanism for gecko-like robot. J Bionic Eng 4, 91–95 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-6529(07)60019-5
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