HyQ - Design and Development of a Hydraulically Actuated Quadruped Robot

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Legged machines promise greater mobility in rough and unstructured terrain
then wheeled vehicles. In the future, especially quadruped robots are
expected to be employed for a variety of dangerous and dirty tasks in fields
like search and rescue, humanitarian demining etc. The objective of this
dissertation is to make a significant contribution toward the development
of a highly dynamic quadruped robot. This versatile platform is intended
to serve as a tool to deepen the understanding of terrestrial locomotion, to
assess the applicability of different hydraulic actuation systems to legged
robots and to facilitate the future construction of useful robots for various
tasks.