Fire is indeed one of the major contributing factors to fatalities, property damage, and
economic disruption. A large number of fire incidents across the world cause devastation …

The progress on fire sensing technologies has been quite substantial in recent years due to
advancements in sensing, information, and communications technologies. In this paper, the …

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 …

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots:
robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in …

This paper provides an overview of previous literature on snake robot locomotion. In
particular, the paper considers previous research efforts related to modelling of snake …

Underactuated robotic systems have become an important research topic aiming at
significant improvement of the behavioural performance and energy efficiency. Adopting …

The study of biomimetic robots and that of animal behaviors are mutually-reinforcing and
inseparable. Animals, through long-term evolutionary processes, have developed innate …

Disaster response, especially fire-fighting and rescue, is highly risky for firefighters engaged
in action. As a result, many robots intended for fire-fighting have been proposed. However, it …

This chapter provides an overview of the state of the art of snake-like (backbones comprised
of many small links) and continuum (continuous backbone) robots. The history of each of …

Purpose Snake-inspired robots are of great significance in many fields because of their
great adaptability to the environment. This paper aims to systematically illustrate the …