Snake Robots Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control /

• Main Authors: Liljebäck, Pål (Author), Pettersen, Kristin Y. (Author), Stavdahl, Øyvind (Author), Gravdahl, Jan Tommy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Industrial Control,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Automation.; Mechatronics.; Robotics and Automation.; Control.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impossible. Future applications of such robots in...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Part I: Snake Robot Locomotion on Planar Surfaces
• A Complex Model of Snake Robot Locomotion
• Development of the Mechanical Snake Wheeko
• Analysis and Synthesis of Snake Robot Locomotion
• Path-following Control and Poincaré Map Analysis
• Part II: Snake Robot Locomotion in Unstructured Environments
• Introduction to Part II
• A Hybrid Model of Snake Robot Locomotion
• Development of the Mechanical Snake Kulko.