Studying snake robot locomotion in a cluttered environment has been a complicated task because the motion model is discontinuous due to the physical contact with obstacles, and the contact force cannot be determined solely by contact positions. We present a unique mathematical model of the robot interacting with obstacles in which the contact forces are mapped on the basis of a viscous friction...

The objective of this work is to investigate how effective smart materials are for generating the motion of a robot. Because of the unique method of locomotion, an evolutionary algorithm is used to evolve the best combination of smart wire activations to move most efficiently. For this purpose, a robot snake was built that uses Nitinol wire as muscles in order to move. The most successful metho...

This study investigates the optimality of the shape of a snake robot in relation to the obstacles in the environment around it. A certain focus is given to the challenge of finding an optimal set of contact forces based on some optimality criteria. A controller scheme for realizing these contact forces on a dynamic snake model with obstacle compliance was presented, but further development and ...

the snake venom´s thrombin-like enzymes comprise a number of serine proteases, which are functionally and structurally related to thrombin. purification and partial characterization of a thrombin-like enzyme from the venom of the iranian snake, agkistrodon halys, was the aim of this study. purification was carried out by a combination of variety of chromatographic methods that included: gel fil...

In this paper, we derive a kinematic model and a control law for 3D snake robots which have wheeled link mechanism. We define the redundancy controllable system and find that introduction of links without wheels makes the system redundancy controllable. Using redundancy, it becomes possible to accomplish both main objective of controlling the position and the posture of the snake robot head, an...