Design and Construction of a Snake-Like Robot Implementing Rectilinear and Sidewinding Gait Motions
Bio-inspired robots offer locomotion versatility in a wide variety of terrains that conventional robots cannot access. One such bio-inspired platform is snake-like robots, which are mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes.
Jairo José Marín Arciniegas +1 more
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems
This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang +4 more
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Project strategy for clean-up of sedimentary radioactive material in Fukushima bay areas using snake-like robotics [PDF]
The snake-like robot is used for clean-up project in Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants has been purified by the water treatment system, called Advanced Liquid Processing System,
Cho Hyo Sung, Woo Tae Ho
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Dual-Loop Control of Cable-Driven Snake-like Robots
Snake-like robots, which have high degrees of freedom and flexibility, can effectively perform an obstacle avoidance motion in a narrow and unstructured space to complete assignments efficiently.
Xiantong Xu +4 more
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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu +5 more
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A Review on Sensor Technologies, Control Approaches, and Emerging Challenges in Soft Robotics
This review provides an introspective of sensors and controllers in soft robotics. Initially describing the current sensing methods, then moving on to the control methods utilized, and finally ending with challenges and future directions in soft robotics focusing on the material innovations, sensor fusion, and embedded intelligence for sensors and ...
Ean Lovett +5 more
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Dynamic Analysis and Path Control of a Snake Like Robot [PDF]
In this paper a modular wheel less snake-like robot by considering viscous friction is modeled. The motion equations of the robot are derived. Then by imitating a real snake motion, the robot is controlled on the way that tracks the predefined trajectory.
Navid Negahbani, Mostafa Ghayour
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Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare
Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin +3 more
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Snake-like robots can perform various types of locomotion in the complex environments. In this article, a novel two-layered central pattern generator-based controller is proposed for controlling snake-like robots.
Guifang Qiao +4 more
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Locomotion Control of Snake-Like Robot with Rotational Elastic Actuators Utilizing Observer
The purpose of this paper is designing a head control system capable of adapting to passive side-slipping. The environments in which snake-like robots are expected to be utilized generally have ground surface conditions with nonuniform frictional ...
Shunsuke Nansai +3 more
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