Bio-Inspired Soft Robot for Locomotion and Navigation in Restricted Spaces

Bio-inspired robot design for legged locomotion

Mobile robot designers are increasingly searching for inspirations and design cues from biological models. Although animals are great model for mobile robots, the process of implementation is often ambiguous. The direct implementation of biological features and morphology often becomes ineffective and misleads engineers due to various reasons. Firstly, engineers investigate animals to achieve a...

Bio-inspired locomotion for a modular snake robot [7321-14]

Inspired by the snake locomotion, modular snake robots have different locomotion capabilities by coordinating their internal degrees of freedom. They have the potential to access restricted spaces where humans cannot go. They can also traverse rough terrains while conventional wheeled and legged robots cannot. Modular robots have other features including versatility, robustness, low-cost, and f...

Spatial Representation and Navigation in a Bio-inspired Robot

A biologically inspired computational model of rodent representation–based (locale) navigation is presented. The model combines visual input in the form of realistic two dimensional grey-scale images and odometer signals to drive the firing of simulated place and head direction cells via Hebbian synapses. The space representation is built incrementally and on-line without any prior information ...

An autonomous flying robot for testing bio-inspired navigation strategies

In this paper, we present our approach to studying bio-inspired navigation strategies on an autonomous flying robot. The robot is a quadrocopter that is based on technology from Mikrokopter and extended with several sensor systems, most of them inspired by sensors that animals use for navigating in their natural environment. Using a light-weight embedded computer from gumstix onboard the copter...

Bio-inspired Legged Locomotion