
Chapter 4
Bio-Inspired Locomotion
Control of the Hexapod
Robot Gregor III
Paolo Arena and Luca Patané
Contents
4.1 Introduction ................................................................. 70
4.2 Stateof theArt .............................................................. 71
4.3 DesignGuidelines........................................................... 73
4.4 RoboticPlatform ............................................................ 77
4.4.1 BiologicalInspiration................................................ 77
4.4.2 RobotMechanicalDesign........................................... 78
4.5 Locomotion Control ..................................