Title :
Design of slim slime robot and its gait of locomotion
Author :
Ohno, Hidetaka ; Hirose, Shigeo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mechano-Aerospace Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Meguro-Ku, Japan
Abstract :
Multi-DOF flexibly-deformable machines are studied from. a biomechanical standpoint and are called "slime robots". A rope-like, one-dimensional slime robot called "slim slime robot" is paid special attention, and its mechanical design and basic locomotion are examined by experiments of the practical model
Keywords :
mobile robots; locomotion gait; multi-DOF flexibly-deformable machines; rope-like one-dimensional slime robot; slim slime robot; Animals; Cables; Deformable models; Lifting equipment; Manipulators; Mobile robots; Parallel robots; Probes; Springs; Strontium;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6612-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2001.976252
