Development of a Remote-controlled Double Headed Snake-like Rescue Robot KOHGA

Adaptive Locomotion of Multibody Snake-like Robot

This paper represents an adaptive rhythmic control for a snake-like robot with 25 degrees of freedom. The adaptive gait control is implemented in algorithmic way in simulation and on a real robot. We investigated behavioral and energetic properties of this control and a dynamics of different body segments. It turned out that despite using homogeneous generators, physical constraints have an inh...

RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team SHINOBI, Japan

We will operate four robots by teleoperation at the competition: two track type, one snake type and one wheel type. Each type of the robots has its own unique control mechanism and possesses different advantages when traveling in various environments. Cooperation of these hetero-type multiple robots will give high task achievability in search and rescue missions. To improve the remote operation...

AmphiBot I: an amphibious snake-like robot

This article presents a project that aims at constructing a biologically inspired amphibious snake-like robot. The robot is designed to be capable of anguilliform swimming like sea-snakes and lampreys in water and lateral undulatory locomotion like a snake on ground. Both the structure and the controller of the robot are inspired by elongate vertebrates. In particular, the locomotion of the rob...

A double-headed polyp

A 50-year-old man was seen as an outpatient for isolated, minimal and intermittent lower gastrointestinal bleeding. He had a history of well-controlled hypertension and diabetes. During his colonoscopy, a polyp with two heads that shared a common long and large stalk was encountered in the sigmoid colon (Fig. 1A). The heads were approximately 2 cm and 3 cm in size. Because of their overall size...

A Double-Headed Monster