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Therefore, when the position of the foot end of the support leg is unchanged, a unique set of joint angles can be obtained with the change of body posture at a certain moment. Based on the designed mapping model, the smooth adjustment of the posture can be achieved by the smooth adjustment of the support legs. Second, a constraint index that satisfies the requirements of the robot\u2019s steady adjustment of the robot is given. The S-curve acceleration\/deceleration method is used to plan the body\u2019s attitude angle transformation curve, and then the mapping control relationship is used to obtain the control trajectory requirements of the joint to achieve smooth adjustment. In addition, this paper also gives a simple choice and motion control method for the redundancy problem caused by the number of support legs of a multi-footed robot when the attitude is changed. The simulation and prototype experiments verify and analyze the proposed method. The results of comparative experiments show that the posture adjustment method proposed in this paper has continuous acceleration without breakpoints, the speed changes gently during the start and stop phases of the attitude transformation, and there is no sudden change in the entire process, which improves the consistency of the actual values of the attitude planning curve with the target values. The physical prototype experiment shows that the maximum deviation between the actual value of the attitude angular velocity and the target value changes from 62.5% to 5.5%, and the degree of fit increases by 57.0%. 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