Snake robot uncovers secrets to sidewinders’ maneuverability

Snake robot uncovers secrets to sidewinders' maneuverability.

A hallmark of animal life is the ability to move through the environment to catch prey, avoid predators, or find mates. Animals achieve this using a staggering diversity of locomotor strategies despite having similar body shape and being subjected to similar physics—e.g., gazelles pronk and cheetahs gallop. These differences in strategy may allow animals to fill different ecological niches by a...

Adding Vision to a Salamander/Snake-Robot

Kinematics Model of Snake Robot Considering Snake Scale

Problem statement: In snake robot research, one of the most efficient forms of locomotion is the lateral undulation. However, lateral undulation, also known as serpentine locomotion, is illsuited for narrow spaces, as the body of the snake must assume a certain amount of curvature to propel forward. Approach: To overcome the inability to adapt to narrow spaces, a novel type of a gait was introd...

Robio-2010 " Snake P3 " : a Semi-autonomous Snake Robot

Here in this paper we present a snake robot which can autonomously change its gait depending on the terrain. Also we present the design and construction details for the same. Here a custom simulator for the robot and an API for the same was developed which reduced the design and development time. For controlling the Snake robot manually a data glove using accelerometers was developed. The Snake...

A Novel Multimode Mobile Robot with Adaptable Wheel Geometry for Maneuverability Improvement

In this paper, an innovative mobile platform is presented which is equipped by three new wheels. The core of the new idea is to establish a new design of rigid circular structure which can be implemented as a wheel by variable radius. The structure of wheel includes a circular pattern of a simple two-link mechanism assembled to obtain a wheel shape. Each wheel has two degrees of freedom. The fi...