Subterranean openings, including mines, present a unique and challenging environment for
robots and autonomous exploration systems. Autonomous robots that are created today will …

The development of autonomous, energy efficient, underwater robots for large areas
exploration has been attracting many researchers, since their use can be effective in several …

Robot designs can take many inspirations from nature, where there are many examples of
highly resilient and fault-tolerant locomotion strategies to navigate complex terrains by …

Numerous mobile robots in various forms specialize in either ground or aerial locomotion,
whereas very few robots can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond simple walking and …

Snake robots have advantages of terrain adaptability over wheeled mobile robots and
traditional articulated robot arms because of their limbless thin body structure and high …

Soft robots: A methodology based on embedded pneumatic networks (PneuNets) is
described that enables large-amplitude actuations in soft elastomers by pressurizing …

Robotic systems capable of aquatic movement has increased exploitation in recent years
due to the diverse range of missions that can be performed in otherwise hostile …

An important problem in the control of locomotion of robots with multiple degrees of freedom
(eg, biomimetic robots) is to adapt the locomotor patterns to the properties of the …

Compared with traditional underwater vehicles, bio-inspired fish robots have the advantages
of high efficiency, high maneuverability, low noise, and minor fluid disturbance. Therefore …

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a straight line path following controller for
underwater snake robots in the presence of constant irrotational currents of unknown …