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Climbing with Snake-Like Robots

IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2001
Abstract This paper presents an implementation of a long serial chain robot that can climb stairs in a “snake-biting-its-tail” loop form, climb up ramps using a travelling wave gait and by adding small spikes or cleats it can also climb near vertical porous materials.
Mark Vim, Sam Homans, Kimon Roufas
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Development of a sea snake-like underwater robot

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2014), 2014
Developing soft fish robots by biomimetic approach is a useful way to achieve high efficiency, high performance and fish-like motions. Comparing to the conventional rigid fish robots, the design and control of soft fish robots are difficult, because the coupling between the flexible structure and fluid should be considered.
Aiguo Ming, Takahiro Ichikawa, Wenjing Zhao, Makoto Shimojo   +3 more
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Development of a snake-like robot adapting to the ground

ICARCV 2004 8th Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision Conference, 2004., 2005
Biological snakes' diverse locomotion modes and physiology make them supremely adapted for the ground. This paper discusses the biological snakes' locomotion mode on the diverse ground, and describes the development of a snake-like robot with the adaptability for the ground. The method to realize some locomotion modes is given. The method for detecting
Bin Li 0001, Li Chen, Yang Lv
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Locomotion control of a novel snake-like robot

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37566), 2005
It is essential to design a joint mechanism for snake-like robots to exhibit more mobility, no singularity and powerful actuation for many applications. By adding a series of passive wheels to the perimeter of the newly designed joint mechanism with 3 DOFs, a snake-like robot provided with the characteristic of omnidirectional mechanism can traverse ...
Changlong Ye 0001, Shugen Ma, Bin Li 0001, Yuechao Wang   +3 more
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Head-raising Motion of Snake-like Robots

2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2005
To acquire more environmental information for planning further tasks, the snake-like robot has to raise its head to observe the situation at a high position due to its low-height stature, which resembles the head-raising motion of the natural snake. In this paper, the motion of snake-like robot raising head is realized by improving the serpentine input
Changlong Ye 0001, Shugen Ma, Bin Li 0001, Yuechao Wang   +3 more
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Influence of the Gradient of a Slope on Optimal Locomotion Curves of a Snake-Like Robot

Advanced Robotics, 2006
Snakes perform many kinds of movement adapted to different environments. Utilizing the snake as a model, we have developed a two-dimensional snake-like robot that emulates a snakes' function.
Shugen Ma, Kousuke Inoue
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Control of a 3-dimensional snake-like robot

2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.03CH37422), 2004
Biological snakes' diverse locomotion modes and physiology make them supremely adapted for environment. The special structure of snakes and their unique movement offer them peculiar ability of climbing and moving even in some ill-conditioned environments such as on the marshland or in narrow tubes. In this paper, we first discuss the controllability of
Shugen Ma, Yoshihiro Ohmameuda, Kousuke Inoue, Bin Li 0001   +3 more
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Snake-Like and Continuum Robots

2016
This chapter provides an overview of the state of the art of snake-like (backbones comprised of many small links) and continuum (continuous backbone) robots. The history of each of these classes of robot is reviewed, focusing on key hardware developments. A review of the existing theory and algorithms for kinematics for both types of robot is presented,
Ian D. Walker, Howie Choset, Gregory S. Chirikjian   +2 more
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Environment-Adaptable Locomotion of a Snake-Like Robot

2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2005
Biological snakes' diverse locomotion modes and physiology make them supremely adapted for the ground. This paper discusses the biological snakes' locomotion mode on the diverse ground, and describes the environment-adaptable locomotion of a snake-like robot. The method to realize some locomotion modes is given.
Bin Li 0001, Shugen Ma, Yuechao Wang, Yang Lv, Li Chen   +4 more
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Multi arm snake-like robot kinematics

2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013
The next step in minimally invasive surgery is the further reduction of incisions by surgery through natural orifices (NOTES) or one single artificial incision (Single-Port). However, physicians pointed out, that those procedures are only possible if new technologies will increase the dexterity of the instruments inside of the body.
Daniel B. Roppenecker, Aron Pfaff, Johannes A. Coy, Tim C. Lueth   +3 more
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