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For the sake of convenience the study of walking vehicles may be subdivided into three large groups according to the number of legs attached to each vehicle, namely, biped, quadruped and six-legged. Each of these means of transport has its merits and demerits. For example, biped vehicles will probably reveal utmost manoeuvrability and land mobility and least stability, and, as a result of the latter, require a most complex control system for balance maintenance.
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Bessonov, A.P., Umnov, N.V. (1974). The Analysis of Gaits in Six-Legged Vehicles According to Their Static Stability. In: On Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 201. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2993-7_1
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