Locomotion Transition Scheme of Multi-Locomotion Robot

Abstract

There are researches aiming to give a high environmental adaptability to robots. Until now stable locomotion of robots in complex environment such as outside rough terrain or steep slope has been realized [1–7]. Locomotion in the most of researches adapted to complex environment has been realized by single type of locomotion form. On the other hand, we have proposed Multi-Locomotion Robot (MLR) that can perform several kinds of locomotion and has high mobility as shown in Fig. 1 [8]. By using MLR, we have realized independently biped and quadruped walking, brachiation, and climbing motion so far [9–15]. Next research issue of MLR is to develop a systematic transition system from one locomotion form to the other.