Optimizing the configuration of a hexapod for traversal of different types of terrain

摘要

After conducting a literature survey of hexapod walking robots it became apparent that little work had been undertaken to investigate the performance of a robot in relation to it's physical configuration.T herefore it was decided to address this issue by means of a simple walking robot simulation to provide inforamtion on how the size and shape of robots could be developed to match their environment more effectively.