Stairs-climbing ability is the crucial performance of mobile robot for urban environment mission such as urban search and rescue or urban reconnaissance. The track type mobile mechanism has been… (More)
This paper presents a new energy saving control method for multi-joint robots to generate passive periodic motions, which require less actuator torque. Generally, if we do not use actuator torque,… (More)
2009 International Conference on Information and…
2009
This paper presents an amphibious snake-like robot's design and its omnipotent locomotion ability both on the land and in the water. This amphibious snake-like robot, mainly composed by 9 Modular… (More)
This paper presents our work on analysis of helical gait for snake-like robots. Although helical gait of snake-like robots was realized before, there is no any intensive investigation about the… (More)
Amphibious snake-like robots are advantageous than traditional snake-like robots for their adaptability in aquatic environments. This paper presents a novel amphibious snake-like robot. The mechanism… (More)
A shape-shifting mobile robot named AMOEBA-I has diverse configurations. Cooperative reconfiguration is presented to improve the robot's reconfigurable ability and adaptability in unstructured… (More)
With the marriage of biomimetics and robotics, there has been a new revolution in structure design and selection of gaits of robot, and thus the field of robotic application was broadly enlarged.… (More)
2007 International Conference on Mechatronics and…
2007
Snake-like robots exhibited more advantages than conventional mobile robots on environment adaptation. They almost can move in most ill conditions including rough terrain, desert, water, cave and… (More)
2006 International Conference on Mechatronics and…
2006
The link-type shape shifting modular robot permits high mobility under unstructured environment for their continuously driving and redundancy. The objective of this work is to enhance the flexibility… (More)
2007 International Conference on Mechatronics and…
2007
For the purpose of performing internal inspection task of pipe, a robot based on adaptive mobile mechanism is developed. The robot equipped with one actuator has two working modes, a normal working… (More)