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Author: Prabhu TL

Prabhu TL is a SenseCentral contributor covering digital products, entrepreneurship, and scalable online business systems. He focuses on turning ideas into repeatable processes—validation, positioning, marketing, and execution. His writing is known for simple frameworks, clear checklists, and real-world examples. When he’s not writing, he’s usually building new digital assets and experimenting with growth channels.

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Hexapod Walker

Legged walkers are a class of robots that imitate the locomotion of animals and insects, using legs. Legged robots have the potential to transverse rough terrains that are impassable by standard wheeled vehicles. It is with this in mind that robotics are developing walker robots. Imitation of Life Legged walkers may imitate the locomotion style of insects, crabs, and sometimes humans. Biped walkers are still a little rare, requiring balance and a good deal more engineering science than multilegged robots. A bipedal robot walker is discussed in detail in Chap. 13.…

August 11, 2021 · Prabhu TL
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Braitenberg Vehicles

In 1984 Valentino Braitenberg published a book titled Vehicles—Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. In his book Valentino describes a number of wondrous vehicles that exhibit interesting behaviors based on the use of a few electronic neurons Similar in concept to Walter’s seminal neural work with his robot tortoises, Valentino’s vehicle behavior is more straightforward, making it somewhat easier to follow both theoretically and logically. This also makes it easier to implement his ideas into real designs for robots. In this chapter we will build a few Braitenberg ­type vehicles. At the heart of Braitenberg vehicles is his description of a basic vehicle, which is a sensor connected to a motor. Braitenberg continues to explain the relationship between the sensor and motor. The relationship is essentially the…

August 11, 2021 · Prabhu TL
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Compliance Control

Task strategy Use of both position and force information is a unique feature in the control of robots…

August 11, 2021 · Prabhu TL
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Force and Compliance Controls

A class of simple tasks may need only trajectory control where the robot end-effecter is moved merely along…

August 11, 2021 · Prabhu TL
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Inertia Matrix

In this section we will extend Lagrange’s equations of motion obtained for the two d.o.f. planar robot to…

August 11, 2021 · Prabhu TL
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Lagrangian Formulation of Robot Dynamics

Lagrangian Dynamics In the Newton-Euler formulation, the equations of motion are derived from Newton’s Second Law, which relates…

August 11, 2021 · Prabhu TL
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Dynamics

In this chapter, we analyze the dynamic behavior of robot mechanisms. The dynamic behavior is described in terms…

August 11, 2021 · Prabhu TL