COMPUTER AIDED STUDY ON ENERGETIC EFFICIENCIES OF A WALKING VEHICLE

First in this paper,based on the definitions of specific resistance,the formulae of leg and foot mech-anism with two different models were derived.By means of computer simulation,the curves of specific re-sistance under different parameters have been obtained.The final conclusions are the followings:(1)For the mechanism of RCS models,the carriage of mammals is superior to that of insects.(2)For the mecha-nism of BCS models,when the relative step distance ranges from 0.1 to 0.6,the carriage of insects is better;when the relative step distance ranges from 0.7 to 1.0,the carriage of mammals is better.