The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

J Delmerico, S Mintchev, A Giusti… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

Gait design for a snake robot by connecting curve segments and experimental demonstration

T Takemori, M Tanaka… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method for designing the gait of a snake robot that moves in a
complicated environment. We propose a method for expressing the target form of a snake …

Decoding decentralized control mechanism underlying adaptive and versatile locomotion of snakes

T Kano, A Ishiguro - Integrative and comparative biology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Snakes have no limbs and can move in various environments using a simple elongated
limbless body structure obtained through a long-term evolutionary process. Specifically …

Task-space control of articulated mobile robots with a soft gripper for operations

M Tanaka, K Tadakuma, M Nakajima… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A task-space method is presented for the control of a head-raising articulated mobile robot,
allowing the trajectory tracking of a tip of a gripper located on the head of the robot in various …

A spiral curve gait design for a modular snake robot moving on a pipe

S Yaqub, A Ali, M Usman, KM Zuhaib, AM Khan… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Modular snake robot has the ability to maneuver narrow, complex, and unstructured
environments. In recent years, Snake robot with 3-D locomotion has been studied by …