Combined Soft Grasping and Crawling Locomotor Robot for Exterior Navigation of Tubular Structures

This paper presents the design, development, and testing of a robot that combines soft-body grasping and crawling locomotion to navigate tubular objects. Inspired by the natural snakes’ climbing locomotion of tubular objects, the soft robot includes proximal and distal modules with radial expansion/...

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Main Authors: Nicolás Mendoza, Mahdi Haghshenas-Jaryani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-02-01
Series:Machines
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/12/3/157