Early Deliverable Shelley

Robotics:-

Hexapod Robotics

1. "Hexapod: 6 Legged Robot"
2. "Autonomous Hexapod Robot: Final Report"
3. "Hexapod Robot: Robot design, model and control"
4. "Arduino Cookbook"

Robotics Aims:-

Gait

1. "Implementation and experimental validation of an autonomous robot" -- locomotion / obstacle avoidance / increased payload
2. "Q-Learning Hexapod" -- efficient walking gait
3. "Locomotion Analysis of a Hexapod Robot. Climbing and Walking Robots" -- tripod continuous gait
4. "Synchronization and Gait Adaptation in Evolving Hexapod Robots" -- self-evolution / adaptability / increased payload
5. "The Incremental Evolution of Gaits for Hexapod Robots" -- locomotion / evolving gait

Obstacle Avoidance

1. "Systematic optimal design of overlapped ultrasonic sensor ring for high performance obstacle detection" -- ultrasonic sensor ring

Fault Tolerance

1. "Improving the Navigability of a Hexapod Robot using a Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Gait" -- fault-tolerant walking gait
2. "Fault-Tolerant Gait Planning for a Hexapod Robot Walking over Rough Terrain" -- failure detection / behaviour adaptability / rough terrain

Energy Efficiency

1. "Power Consumption Optimization for a Hexapod Walking Robot" -- autonomous robotics / torque distribution scheme
2. "Dynamic Modeling of Energy Efficient Hexapod Robot’s Locomotion over Gradient Terrains" -- autonomous robotics / ascending/descending gradient terrain

Self-Awareness

Increased Payload

Out-of-the-box Solution

Stereovision:-

Hexapod Stereovision

1. "VisionBug: A Hexapod Robot Controlled by Stereo Cameras" -- stereovision cameras instead of range sensors