Toward a gecko-inspired, climbing soft robot

In this paper, we present a gecko-inspired soft robot that is able to climb inclined, flat surfaces. By changing the design of the previous version, the energy consumption of the robot could be reduced, and at the same time, its ability to climb and its speed of movement could be increased. As a result, the new prototype consumes only about a third of the energy of the previous version and manages to climb slopes of up to 84◦. In the horizontal plane, its velocity could be increased from 2 to 6 cm/s. We also provide a detailed analysis of the robot's straight gait.

Subjects

Apriltags

Climbing robot

Fast pneu-nets

Gecko-inspired robot

Mobile soft robots

DDC Class

600: Technik

Funding(s)

Open Access Publizieren 2018 - 2019 / TU Hamburg

More Funding Information

Supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in the funding programme Open
Access Publishing.

Lizenz

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Name

fnbot-13-00106.pdf

Size

2.21 MB

Format

Adobe PDF

Options

Toward a gecko-inspired, climbing soft robot