EFFICIENT LOCOMOTION ON NON-WHEELED SNAKE-LIKE ROBOTS

Julián Colorado, Antonio Barrientos, Claudio Rossi, Mario Garzón, María Galán, Jaime del Cerro

2010

Abstract

This article presents our current work on studying energy efficient locomotion on crawling snake-like robots. The aim of this work is to use existing biological inspired methods to demonstrate lateral undulation planar gaits for efficiently controlling high-speed motion as a function of the terrain surface. A multilink non-wheeled snake-like robot is being developed for experimentation and analysis of efficient serpentine locomotion based on simulation results.

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Colorado J., Barrientos A., Rossi C., Garzón M., Galán M. and del Cerro J. (2010). EFFICIENT LOCOMOTION ON NON-WHEELED SNAKE-LIKE ROBOTS . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-01-0, pages 246-251. DOI: 10.5220/0002945902460251


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco10,
author={Julián Colorado and Antonio Barrientos and Claudio Rossi and Mario Garzón and María Galán and Jaime del Cerro},
title={EFFICIENT LOCOMOTION ON NON-WHEELED SNAKE-LIKE ROBOTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2010},
pages={246-251},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002945902460251},
isbn={978-989-8425-01-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - EFFICIENT LOCOMOTION ON NON-WHEELED SNAKE-LIKE ROBOTS
SN - 978-989-8425-01-0
AU - Colorado J.
AU - Barrientos A.
AU - Rossi C.
AU - Garzón M.
AU - Galán M.
AU - del Cerro J.
PY - 2010
SP - 246
EP - 251
DO - 10.5220/0002945902460251