TY - GEN
T1 - Bio-inspired salamander robot leg design for uneven terrains
AU - Ishizono, Momoka
AU - Kakigi, Yasunari
AU - Takahashi, Yohei
AU - Miyagusuku, Renato
AU - Ozaki, Koichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/10/13
Y1 - 2020/10/13
N2 - Ideally, search and rescue operations after a natural disaster has struck, should be performed by search and rescue robots. As natural disasters strike in very different environments and terrains, all-terrain robots are the best choice. By taking inspiration from salamanders, an amphibian, which can both swim and walk, we propose a new leg mechanism for uneven terrains. The mechanism is fabricated using commercial 3D printers, making them cheap, and illustrating how accessible 3D printers can be used for mechanism design. The feasibility of our approach is tested in practice.
AB - Ideally, search and rescue operations after a natural disaster has struck, should be performed by search and rescue robots. As natural disasters strike in very different environments and terrains, all-terrain robots are the best choice. By taking inspiration from salamanders, an amphibian, which can both swim and walk, we propose a new leg mechanism for uneven terrains. The mechanism is fabricated using commercial 3D printers, making them cheap, and illustrating how accessible 3D printers can be used for mechanism design. The feasibility of our approach is tested in practice.
KW - Biomimetics
KW - Robot
KW - salamander
KW - Search and Rescue
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099333141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/GCCE50665.2020.9291933
DO - 10.1109/GCCE50665.2020.9291933
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85099333141
T3 - 2020 IEEE 9th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, GCCE 2020
SP - 128
EP - 129
BT - 2020 IEEE 9th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, GCCE 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 9th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, GCCE 2020
Y2 - 13 October 2020 through 16 October 2020
ER -