Review of snake robots in constrained environments

J Liu, Y Tong, J Liu - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Locomotion gait control of snake robots based on a novel unified CPG network model composed of Hopf oscillators

X Liu, Y Zang, Z Gao, M Liao - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Snake robots with limbless structure and rich locomotion gaits have been designed and built
for wide application in various fields including military reconnaissance, pipeline operation …

Spatiotemporal pattern of periodic rhythms in delayed Van der Pol oscillators for the CPG-based locomotion of snake-like robot

Z Song, X Huang, J Xu - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
This is the further research on the delayed half-center oscillator (DHCO) neural system
presented in our previous paper (Song and Xu in Nonlinear Dyn 108: 2595–2609, 2022 …

CPG-based autonomous swimming control for multi-tasks of a biomimetic robotic fish

C Bal, GO Koca, D Korkmaz, ZH Akpolat, M Ay - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This work emphasizes the artificial intelligent control of the developed biomimetic robotic fish
(i-RoF) based on sensory feedback Central Pattern Generator (CPG) approach. In order to …

A spiking central pattern generator for the control of a simulated lamprey robot running on SpiNNaker and Loihi neuromorphic boards

E Angelidis, E Buchholz, J Arreguit… - Neuromorphic …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Central pattern generator (CPG) models have long been used to investigate both the neural
mechanisms that underlie animal locomotion, as well as for robotic research. In this work we …

Towards autonomous locomotion: CPG-based control of smooth 3D slithering gait transition of a snake-like robot

Z Bing, L Cheng, G Chen, F Röhrbein… - Bioinspiration & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Snake-like robots with 3D locomotion ability have significant advantages of adaptive
travelling in diverse complex terrain over traditional legged or wheeled mobile robots …

Learning to locomote with artificial neural-network and cpg-based control in a soft snake robot

X Liu, R Gasoto, Z Jiang, C Onal… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a new locomotion control method for soft robot snakes. Inspired by
biological snakes, our control architecture is composed of two key modules: A reinforcement …

Reinforcement learning of CPG-regulated locomotion controller for a soft snake robot

X Liu, CD Onal, J Fu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent control of soft robots is challenging due to the nonlinear and difficult-to-model
dynamics. One promising model-free approach for soft robot control is reinforcement …

Central pattern generator (CPG)-based locomotion control and hydrodynamic experiments of synergistical interaction between pectoral fins and caudal fin for boxfish …

L Chen, Y Cai, S Bi - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Locomotion control of synergistical interaction between fins has been one of the key
problems in the field of robotic fish research owing to its contribution to improving and …

Review of the latest research on snake robots focusing on the structure, motion and control method

J Bae, M Kim, B Song, J Yang, D Kim, M **… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Unlike other types of robots, the snake robot performs unique motions and can move on
various terrains such as gravel, stairs, and pipes. Therefore, snake robots are used as …