Springer Verlag, Singapore Humanoid Robots: Fundamentals and Applications

Humanoid robots represent the pinnacle of biomimetic machines, possessing a humanlike form and motion that enable them to emulate human actions and behaviors. This book is a comprehensive textbook on humanoidrobot technology, covering a broad spectrum of knowledge from fundamental theory to cuttingedge advances. The book systematically explains kinematic and dynamic modelling of humanoid robots, basic walking control, learningbased motion control, navigation control, perception technologies, mechanical design, and practical motioncontrol applications. Its content is rich and wellstructured, emphasizing the systematization, applicability, and frontier nature of the material, and highlighting the novelty of the selected topics. By studying it thoroughly, readers will acquire a solid grasp of the core principles and practical skills of humanoidrobot technology, laying a firm foundation for future research and practice in the field. This textbook can serve as a guidebook for undergraduate students in robotics engineering, automation, artificial intelligence, mechatronics, electronic information, and related graduate programs, and it is also a valuable reference for engineers and researchers engaged in the development and research of humanoidrobot technology. Autorid: Wei Zhang, Guoyu Zuo, Xingxing Wang