Toward a Gecko-Inspired, Climbing Soft Robot

In this paper, we present a gecko-inspired soft robot that is able to climb inclined, flat surfaces. By changing the design of the previous version, the energy consumption of the robot could be reduced, and at the same time, its ability to climb and its speed of movement could be increased. As a res...

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Autores principales: Schiller, Lars, Seibel, Arthur, Schlattmann, Josef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6951426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31956304
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00106
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description In this paper, we present a gecko-inspired soft robot that is able to climb inclined, flat surfaces. By changing the design of the previous version, the energy consumption of the robot could be reduced, and at the same time, its ability to climb and its speed of movement could be increased. As a result, the new prototype consumes only about a third of the energy of the previous version and manages to climb slopes of up to 84°. In the horizontal plane, its velocity could be increased from 2 to 6 cm/s. We also provide a detailed analysis of the robot's straight gait.
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spelling pubmed-69514262020-01-17 Toward a Gecko-Inspired, Climbing Soft Robot Schiller, Lars Seibel, Arthur Schlattmann, Josef Front Neurorobot Neuroscience In this paper, we present a gecko-inspired soft robot that is able to climb inclined, flat surfaces. By changing the design of the previous version, the energy consumption of the robot could be reduced, and at the same time, its ability to climb and its speed of movement could be increased. As a result, the new prototype consumes only about a third of the energy of the previous version and manages to climb slopes of up to 84°. In the horizontal plane, its velocity could be increased from 2 to 6 cm/s. We also provide a detailed analysis of the robot's straight gait. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6951426/ /pubmed/31956304 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00106 Text en Copyright © 2019 Schiller, Seibel and Schlattmann. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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