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In this chapter, a brief introduction is given to the multi-legged robots walking in various terrains. Moreover, it covers the advantages and disadvantages of legged robots followed by its practical applications and methodologies involved in the modeling of multi-legged robots.

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Mahapatra, A., Roy, S.S., Pratihar, D.K. (2020). Introduction. In: Multi-body Dynamic Modeling of Multi-legged Robots. Cognitive Intelligence and Robotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2953-5_1

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