Innovation in Underwater Robots: Biologically Inspired Swimming Snake Robots

Biologically Inspired Robots

Locomotion Efficiency Optimization of Biologically Inspired Snake Robots

Eleni Kelasidi 1,* ID , Mansoureh Jesmani 2, Kristin Y. Pettersen 1 and Jan Tommy Gravdahl 2 1 Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway; [email protected] 2 Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway; [email protected] (M.J.); [email protected] (J.T.G.)...

The first biologically inspired robots

INTRODUCTION Most articles and books on the history of robotics make only a passing reference to Grey Walter’s robot tortoises, regarding them as quaint period curiosities quite unrelated to our intellectually and technically sophisticated modern creations. This is to some extent understandable, because very little of a satisfactory scientific nature was ever published about the tortoises, and ...

Bio-Inspired Micro Robots Swimming in Channels

Swimming micro robots that mimic micro organisms have a huge potential in biomedical applications such as opening clogged hard-to-reach arteries, targeted drug delivery and diagnostic operations. Typically, a micro swimmer that consists of a magnetic bead as its body, which is attached to a rigid helical tail, is actuated by a rotating external magnetic field and moved forward in the direction ...

Biologically Inspired Locomotion in Humanoid Robots

In this article, we present a biologically inspired behavior-based locomotion approach for humanoid robots. On the low level, locomotion is realised by a combination of rythmic pattern generators to produce walking motions and postural reflexes which keep the robot stable and balanced. A higher level behavior could achieve goal-directed movements by exerting influence on the low-level behaviors...