Caterpillar locomotion: A new model for soft- bodied climbing and burrowing robots
By B. Trimmer, Anne E. Takesian, Brian M. Sweet, Chris Rogers, D. Hake, D. Rogers. 2006
128 citations recorded by the source corpus.
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/933fd2eaf2f4cd2c6bd50680594886e4bd1547b3
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- Ian D. Walker
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- Josie Hughes
- Thomas George Thuruthel
- Robert J. Webster III
Citations in the corpus
- Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities (2016, background): “Another example is the caterpillar-like robot built with silicone rubber and actuated by shape memory alloy (SMA) springs: It was first presented in (25) and then evolved toward more advanced versions.”
- A Recipe for Soft Fluidic Elastomer Robots (2015, unknown): “emulated the peristaltic locomotion of caterpillars.(20,67) Shepherd et al.”
- Omega-Shaped Inchworm-Inspired Crawling Robot With Large-Index-and-Pitch (LIP) SMA Spring Actuators (2013, background): “and shape-memory alloy (SMA) coil actuators [2], [3], a metalbased body and motor [4], [5], and piezoelectric actuators [6].”
- "Soft" Continuum Robots - the Interaction of Continuous and Discrete Elements (2008, background): “Implications for the successful operation and deployment of continuum robots are identified and discussed.”
- Design, kinematics, and control of a soft spatial fluidic elastomer manipulator (2016, background): “Onal and Rus (2013) emulated the serpentine locomotion of snakes, Trimmer et al. (2006) and Umedachi et al. (2013) emulated the peristaltic locomotion of caterpillars, and Marchese et al. (2014c) and Katzschmann et al. (2014) emulated the flapping propulsion of fish.”
- Soft Robotics: New Perspectives for Robot Bodyware and Control (2014, unknown): “…GoQBot, where SMA actuators and the incompressibility of fluids is exploited to deliver performance resembling those of the hydrostatic skeletons (Trimmer et al., 2006; Lin et al., 2011) and the octopus-inspired robots developed at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where the combination of soft…”