Evaluation of bio-inspired scales on locomotion performance of snake-like robots

AH Chang, PA Vela - Robotica, 2019 - cambridge.org
The unique frictional properties conferred by snake ventral scales inspired the engineering
and fabrication of surrogate mechanisms for a robotic snake. These artificial, biologically …

Shape-centric modeling for control of traveling wave rectilinear locomotion on snake-like robots

AH Chang, PA Vela - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
A traveling wave rectilinear gait for elongated, continuous bodies is modeled as a cyclically-
varying backbone curve. The gait shapes are represented as planar deviations relative to an …

Autonomous, monocular, vision-based snake robot navigation and traversal of cluttered environments using rectilinear gait motion

AH Chang, S Feng, Y Zhao, JS Smith… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Rectilinear forms of snake-like robotic locomotion are anticipated to be an advantage in
obstacle-strewn scenarios characterizing urban disaster zones, subterranean collapses, and …

[PDF][PDF] Bendable Cuboid Robot Path Planning with Collision Avoidance using Generalized Lp Norms

P Nak-seung, PA Vela, EI Verriest - academia.edu
Optimal path planning problems for rigid and deformable (bendable) cuboid robots are
considered by providing an analytic safety constraint using generalized Lp norms. For …

Bendable Cuboid Robot Path Planning with Collision Avoidance using Generalized Norms

NP Hyun, PA Vela, EI Verriest - arxiv preprint arxiv:1712.06021, 2017 - arxiv.org
Optimal path planning problems for rigid and deformable (bendable) cuboid robots are
considered by providing an analytic safety constraint using generalized $ L_p $ norms. For …

[PDF][PDF] Marsupially-Aided Robotic Snake Exploration and Navigation of Cluttered Environments

A Faché, N Raphael, AM Velasco, E Prucka… - 2019 - libjournals.unca.edu
Environments characterizing disaster zones frequently impose locomotive limitations on
traditionally larger, wheeled or tracked mobile platforms due to the inability to drive over …

[PDF][PDF] Causal infinitesimal modeling of nonlinear impulsive systems and safe path planning in robotics

NSP Hyun - Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018 - core.ac.uk
In contrast to the infinitesimal modeling of the motion in insensible time, a trajectory
generation of point mass robots in the planar space in sensible time is considered in this …