Bionic multi-legged robots with flexible bodies embody human ingenuity in imitating,
learning, and exploring the natural world. In contrast to rigid-body robots, these robots with …

An unmanned metamorphic vehicle is a new deformable robot that can transform its
configuration according to different road conditions in order to realize wheeled driving or …

We report on the development of a novel two-degrees-of-freedom module capable of
transforming its shape between a wheel and a leg, with the length of the latter approximately …

Autonomous vehicles are a continuously rising technology in several industry sectors.
Examples of these technologies lie in the advances in self-driving cars and can be linked to …

This article reports on a model-based methodology for a leg-wheel transformable robot to
autonomously determine the use of the wheeled or legged mode based on environmental …

Manual handling of hot and heavy workpiece in forging press industry increases the process
time and causes safety risks to workers. To increase the productivity and optimise the use of …

Robots capable of traversing flights of stairs play an important role in both indoor and
outdoor applications. The capability of accurately identifying a staircase is one of the vital …

The wheel-legged robot inherits the merit of both the wheeled robot and the legged robot,
which can not only adapt to the complex terrain but also maintain the driving efficiency on …

Wheel-legged robots are a type of mobile robot that combines the advantages of wheeled
robots, such as fast and stable movement and high efficiency, with the adaptability of legged …

In this paper, a novel transformable leg-wheel mechanism is proposed. It has three active
joints, among which the hip roll joint is directly driven, the hip pitch joint is driven by gear …