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专题简介
人类自古以来一直梦想着能够设计并制造一种适用于各种地形的移动机构。与轮式和履带式移动机器人相比，腿足式平台具有更好的运动灵活性和地形适应能力，但目前在移动速度和控制复杂度方面存在着一定缺陷。
本刊组织的“多足机器人”专题将面向具有三条以上腿部结构的移动机器人平台。与单足或双足机器人相比，多足机器人拥有更多的步态和落足方式以维持身体平衡，但其机构与控制算法也随着腿部和自由度数量的增多而变得更加复杂。
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专题主题
本专题旨在探索多足机器人领域的研究现状、研究难点以及发展趋势，专题的客座编委诚邀您将相关领域的最新成果投稿至BIROB期刊，其主题包括但不限于：
• 仿生多足系统
• 多足机器人机构
• 多足机器人运动控制
• 足式机器人建模和控制
• 周期行走和被动行走
• 实用步态设计
• 足式运动稳定裕度
• 占空比和弗劳德数
• 轮-腿复合机器人
• 轮-臂复合机器人
• 仿生爬壁机器人
• 奇异腿足式机构
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客座编委
宋锐
山东大学
rsong@sdu.edu.cn
熊蓉
浙江大学
rxiong@zju.edu.cn
高海波
哈尔滨工业大学
gaohaibo@hit.edu.cn
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时间安排
提交截止日期：2021 年 11 月 15 日
录用通知日期：2021 年 12 月 31 日
发表日期：2022 年 3 月 15 日
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投稿指南
诚邀您在提交截止日期前通过本刊的投稿系统(Editorial Manager®) 提交您的稿件。请参考投稿系统中的作者指南，在线投稿时选择“VSI: Multi-legged Robots”文章类型。作者指南和投稿系统均可在期刊主页上找到：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomimetic-intelligence-and-robotics
符合要求的稿件将由至少两名独立审稿人进行评审。稿件一经录用将尽快在线发表，本专题所发表的文章将加注专题标识。
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Introduction
The dream of designing and realizing robots to cross challenging terrain is almost as old as humanity. Compared to the wheeled or tracked mobile robots, legged platforms demonstrate better flexibility and terrain adaptability at the cost of low speed and increased control complexity.
The special issue “Multi-legged Robots” of the Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (BIROB) treats robots that have more than three legs. Compared with monopods or bipeds, multi-legged robots have a wider choice of gaits and foot placing to maintain balance. However, their mechanisms and control algorithms become more complex with the increase in the number of legs and degrees of freedom (DOF).
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Topics
This special issue aims to highlight the state of the art, the challenges, the current and future trends of multi-legged robots. BIROB, through the guest editors of this special issue, invite to report the latest advances and recent accomplishments in this area, including (but not limited to) the following topics:
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• Bioinspired multi-legged systems
• Multi-legged mechanisms
• Multi-legged locomotion
• Modeling and control of legged robots
• Cyclic walking and passive walking
• Practical gait design
• Stability margin concept
• Duty factor and Froude number
• Leg-wheel hybrid robots
• Leg-arm hybrid robots
• Wall-climbing robots
• Odd legged walkers
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Guest Editors
Rui Song
Shandong University
rsong@sdu.edu.cn
Rong Xiong
Zhejiang University
rxiong@zju.edu.cn
Haibo Gao
Harbin Institute of Technology
gaohaibo@hit.edu.cn
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Schedule
Submission Deadline:
Nov. 15th, 2021
Notification of Acceptance:
Dec. 31st, 2021
Publication:
Mar. 15th, 2022
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Submission Guidelines
You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of “VSI: Multi-legged Robots” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomimetic-intelligence-and-robotics
All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.
