Mechanics of Terrestrial Locomotion 87 chapters include the kind of O.P chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory The EDAS conference submission system was used to manage the paper submissions the analysis of biological locomotion andmanipulation systemsandtheirtechnical realizationhas beenan portant research eld within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Ilmenau University of Technology Zimmermann contributed many publications on the mechanics of worm like locomotion systems based on continuum and rigid body models as well as asymptotic methods