Unified Approach to the Motion Design for a Snake Robot Negotiating Complicated Pipe Structures

A unified method for designing the motion of a snake robot negotiating complicated pipe structures is presented. Such robots moving inside pipes must deal with various “obstacles,” such as junctions, bends, diameter changes, shears, and blockages. To surmount these obstacles, we propose a method tha...

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Main Authors: Mariko Inazawa, Tatsuya Takemori, Motoyasu Tanaka, Fumitoshi Matsuno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Robotics and AI
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.629368/full