Development of a Lobster-Inspired Underwater Microrobot

Robotic Systems Development of a Lobster - Inspired Underwater Microrobot Regular Paper

Biomimetic underwater microrobots are of great interest for underwater monitoring operations, such as pollution detection and video mapping in restricted underwater environments. Generally speaking, compact structure, multi‐functionality, flexibility and precise positioning are considered incompatible characteristics for underwater microrobots. Nevertheless, we have designed...

Development and Experiments of a Bio-inspired Underwater Microrobot with 8 Legs

A biomimetic underwater microrobot with multifunctional locomotion

Underwater microrobots are in urgent demand for applications such as pollution detection and video mapping in limited space. Compact structure, multi-functionality, and flexibility are normally considered incompatible characteristics for underwater microrobots. Nevertheless, to accomplish our objectives, we designed a novel inchworm-inspired biomimetic locomotion prototype with ionic polymer me...

Fish-Like Underwater Microrobot with 3 DOF

It is our purpose to develop an underwater microrobot that has the characteristics of flexibility, driven by a low voltage, good response and safety in body. We have reported an underwater fish-like microrobot with 2 DOF that has the characteristics of flexibility, good response and safety in body before. In this paper, we propose a new prototype model of an underwater microrobot utilizing ICPF...

Development of a biomimetic underwater microrobot for a father–son robot system

Underwater vehicles have been extensively applied to underwater intervention missions instead of human in recent years. As the crucial equipment of underwater vehicles, underwater manipulators typically play an important role in the underwater tasks. Generally, underwater manipulators are operated manually by human with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). A KORDI ROV with a dual teleoperated man...