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Applied Sciences, 2017 In nature, snakes can gracefully traverse a wide range of different and complex environments. Snake robots that can mimic this behaviour could be fitted with sensors and transport tools to hazardous or confined areas that other robots and humans are ...
Filippo Sanfilippo +5 more
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Locomotion Efficiency Optimization of Biologically Inspired Snake Robots
Applied Sciences, 2018 Snake robots constitute bio-inspired solutions that have been studied due to their ability to move in challenging environments where other types of robots, such as wheeled or legged robots, usually fail.
Eleni Kelasidi +3 more
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Snake Robots for Surgical Applications: A Review
Robotics, 2022 Although substantial advancements have been achieved in robot-assisted surgery, the blueprint to existing snake robotics predominantly focuses on the preliminary structural design, control, and human–robot interfaces, with features which have not been ...
Jenna Seetohul, Mahmood Shafiee
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Annual Reviews in Control, 2017 The inspiration for snake robots comes from biological snakes. Snakes display superior mobility capabilities and can move over virtually any type of terrain, including narrow and confined spaces. They are good climbers, very efficient swimmers, and some snakes can even fly by jumping off branches and using their body to glide through the air.
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IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2009 We have introduced the biomechanical research on snakes and developmental research on snake-like robots that we have been working on. We could not introduce everything we developed. There were also a smaller snake-like active endoscope; a large-sized snake-like inspection robot for nuclear reactor related facility, Koryu, 1 m in height, 3.5 m in length,
Shigeo Hirose, Hiroya Yamada
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Head-Raising of Snake Robots Based on a Predefined Spiral Curve Method [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2018 A snake robot has to raise its head to acquire a wide visual space for planning complex tasks such as inspecting unknown environments, tracking a flying object and acting as a manipulator with its raising part.
Xiaobo Zhang +3 more
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Curvilinear Kirigami Skins Let Soft Bending Actuators Slither Faster
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 The locomotion of soft snake robots is dependent on frictional interactions with the environment. Frictional anisotropy is a morphological characteristic of snakeskin that allows snakes to engage selectively with surfaces and generate propulsive forces ...
Callie Branyan +7 more
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Biomimetics, 2022 Replicating animal movements with robots provides powerful research tools because key parameters can be manipulated at will. Facing the lack of standard methods and the high complexity of biological systems, an incremental bioinspired approach is ...
Elie Gautreau +7 more
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Generation of Snake Robot Locomotion Patterns Using Genetic Algorithm [PDF]
한국정밀공학회지, 2021 This paper presents a novel method of designing an efficient locomotion pattern generating algorithm for snake robots by a genetic algorithm (GA). In search and rescue operations in disaster areas, a snake robot requires multiple locomotion patterns.
Juhyun Pyo +6 more
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IRIS: Integrated Robotic Intraocular Snake [PDF]
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 Retinal surgery is one of the most technically challenging surgical disciplines. Many robotic systems have been developed to enhance the surgical capabilities. However, very few of them provide the surgeon the dexterity within the patient's eye to enable more flexible, more advanced surgical procedures.
Xingchi, He +4 more
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