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The active sliding synthetic wheel biped proposed in this paper is a modification of the active synthetic wheel biped (SWB) developed previously. The SWB rolls on its arc-shaped feet and steps to transition between feet which results in walking. In this paper, we allow the SWB to slide while walking which provides an additional mode of locomotion. Partial feedback linearization is used to track desired...