supported by Funding for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BCXJ10-10);the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2007AA04Z201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60910007,31070344 and 50975140)
Studying the locomotive behavior of animals has the potential to inspire the design of the mechanism and gait patterns of robots ("bio-inspired robots"). The kinematics characteristics of a spider (Ornithoctonus huwen...