Title :
Biologically Inspired Snake-like Robots
Author :
Hirose, Shigeo ; Mori, Makoto
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Inst. of Technol.
Abstract :
We have developed the snake-like robot since 1972. The body of snake has "the function of an arm" when it holds something by coiling itself and also has "the function of legs" when it moves by creeping. The body of ACM has several functions, which are fulfilled one after another according to the situation. Especially in this paper, it introduces about the various move method realized about the move function using 3-dimensional type ACM, and its feature
Keywords :
mobile robots; active cord mechanism; biologically inspired snake-like robots; Biological information theory; Biological system modeling; Magnetooptic recording; Propulsion; Prototypes; Reliability engineering; Robots; Rough surfaces; Shape; Surface roughness;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics, 2004. ROBIO 2004. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenyang
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8614-8
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2004.1521742
