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Walking is a fascinating way of locomotion that is very robust, especially in unstructured terrain. Many researchers devote their time to understanding its underlying principles and to build robots based on their findings. Using the fingers of DLR-Hand II a six-legged actively compliant walking robot is developed. It is intended to be used as testbed for the evaluation of different force- and position-based leg and gait control algorithms for hexapod walking in rough terrain. Following a brief overview of the finger hardware, the use of fingers as legs is analyzed and discussed. The body geometry as well as the systems constituting the robot are described. The compliance control algorithm used is explained and finally some experimental results are presented.
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