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Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw
Cave animals are often adapted to digging and life underground, with claw toes similar in structure and function to a sampling scoop. In this paper, the clawed toes of the Himalayan marmot were selected as a biological prototype for bionic research. Based on geometric parameter optimization of the c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28127229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5713683 |
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author | Xue, Long Zhang, Rong Rong Zong, Wei Song, Jia Feng Zou, Meng |
author_facet | Xue, Long Zhang, Rong Rong Zong, Wei Song, Jia Feng Zou, Meng |
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description | Cave animals are often adapted to digging and life underground, with claw toes similar in structure and function to a sampling scoop. In this paper, the clawed toes of the Himalayan marmot were selected as a biological prototype for bionic research. Based on geometric parameter optimization of the clawed toes, a bionic sampling scoop for use on Mars was designed. Using a 3D laser scanner, the point cloud data of the second front claw toe was acquired. Parametric equations and contour curves for the claw were then built with cubic polynomial fitting. We obtained 18 characteristic curve equations for the internal and external contours of the claw. A bionic sampling scoop was designed according to the structural parameters of Curiosity's sampling shovel and the contours of the Himalayan marmot's claw. Verifying test results showed that when the penetration angle was 45° and the sampling speed was 0.33 r/min, the bionic sampling scoops' resistance torque was 49.6% less than that of the prototype sampling scoop. When the penetration angle was 60° and the sampling speed was 0.22 r/min, the resistance torque of the bionic sampling scoop was 28.8% lower than that of the prototype sampling scoop. |
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spelling | pubmed-52273342017-01-26 Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw Xue, Long Zhang, Rong Rong Zong, Wei Song, Jia Feng Zou, Meng Appl Bionics Biomech Research Article Cave animals are often adapted to digging and life underground, with claw toes similar in structure and function to a sampling scoop. In this paper, the clawed toes of the Himalayan marmot were selected as a biological prototype for bionic research. Based on geometric parameter optimization of the clawed toes, a bionic sampling scoop for use on Mars was designed. Using a 3D laser scanner, the point cloud data of the second front claw toe was acquired. Parametric equations and contour curves for the claw were then built with cubic polynomial fitting. We obtained 18 characteristic curve equations for the internal and external contours of the claw. A bionic sampling scoop was designed according to the structural parameters of Curiosity's sampling shovel and the contours of the Himalayan marmot's claw. Verifying test results showed that when the penetration angle was 45° and the sampling speed was 0.33 r/min, the bionic sampling scoops' resistance torque was 49.6% less than that of the prototype sampling scoop. When the penetration angle was 60° and the sampling speed was 0.22 r/min, the resistance torque of the bionic sampling scoop was 28.8% lower than that of the prototype sampling scoop. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5227334/ /pubmed/28127229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5713683 Text en Copyright © 2016 Long Xue et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Xue, Long Zhang, Rong Rong Zong, Wei Song, Jia Feng Zou, Meng Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw |
title | Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw |
title_full | Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw |
title_fullStr | Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw |
title_full_unstemmed | Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw |
title_short | Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw |
title_sort | bionic design for mars sampling scoop inspired by himalayan marmot claw |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227334/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28127229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5713683 |
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