Fast and Robust: Hexapedal Robots via Shape Deposition Manufacturing

By J. Cham, S. Bailey, Jonathan E. Clark, Robert J. Full, Mark R. Cutkosky. Int. J. Robotics Res., 2002

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Neuromechanics: an integrative approach for understanding motor control. (2007, background): “These fundamental biological discoveries, in concert with their mathematical representations, inspired the design of two rapidrunning legged robots (RHex; Altendorfer et al. 2000 and Sprawl; Cham et al. 2002).”
Soft Manipulators and Grippers: A Review (2016, background): “Sacrificial support material allows for the construction of complex and intricate geometries and allows for the inclusions of sensors, circuitry or actuators (Cham et al., 2002).”
Bio-inspired design and dynamic maneuverability of a minimally actuated six-legged robot (2010, background): “More recently, robots like Sprawlita [ 8 ], Mini-Whegs [24], and iSprawl [18] have pushed the performance boundaries of dynamic locomotion.”
A Recipe for Soft Fluidic Elastomer Robots (2015, unknown): “The vast majority of soft elastomer robots rely on the processes of soft lithography(64) and/or shape deposition manufacturing.(65) Specifically, for soft fluidic elastomer robots this fabrication process generally consists of three steps, as shown in Figure 3: (1) Two elastomer layers are molded th”
Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays (2006, background): “I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, there has been considerable progress in small, legged robots that can run rapidly and stably over rough terrain [30], [9], [29], [16].”
The status, challenges, and future of additive manufacturing in engineering (2015, unknown): “been demonstrated for shape depositionmanufacturing [148,149],”
SpinybotII: climbing hard walls with compliant microspines (2005, background): “N recent years, there has been considerable progress in small, legged robots that can run rapidly and stably over rough terrain [1][2][3][4].”
iSprawl: Design and Tuning for High-speed Autonomous Open-loop Running (2006, methodology): “The data for iSprawl were taken with the robot running at 2.3 m/s over an ATI Omega force plate, and the signal was conditioned in the same manner as in [ 3 ].”
DASH: A dynamic 16g hexapedal robot (2009, background): “Examples include Mini-Whegs [6], Sprawlita [ 7 ], iSprawl [8], and RHex [9].”