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System of 3-D Printed Components for the Rapid Prototyping of Legged Robots

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A system of components designed for the rapid prototyping of different robot body plans for legged robots is described in this chapter. The components are designed and fabricated using 3-D printing technology. As such, they constitute a low-cost way to experiment with legged robots for researchers, practitioners, and students. As legged robots become more common, there will be a need for new designs and new intelligent behaviors. A system of components that facilitates experimentation can play an important role in this development. And because these components are 3-D printed, they can easily be shared and fabricated by others.

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  1. CSU Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, USA

    David Claveau

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  1. Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Fakhri Karray

  3. School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

    Jun Jo

  4. Center for Intelligent Technologies, Technical University of Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia

    Peter Sincak

  5. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Hyun Myung

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Claveau, D. (2017). System of 3-D Printed Components for the Rapid Prototyping of Legged Robots. In: Kim, JH., Karray, F., Jo, J., Sincak, P., Myung, H. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 4. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 447. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31293-4_35

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