Animals can utilize the friction anisotropy of their skin to traverse various substrates efficiently. Inspired by this, we explore different bio-inspired sawtooth-like surface structures on a soft crawling robot. Our results show the robot can crawl in different directions by exploiting friction anisotropy on the substrates and using only a single source of pressure for its pneumatic actuation.
Exploiting Friction Anisotropy for Soft Robot Locomotion
Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.
Climbing and Walking Robots Conference ; 2022 ; Ponta Delgada, Portugal September 12, 2022 - September 14, 2022
2022-08-25
5 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Exploiting Friction Anisotropy for Soft Robot Locomotion
TIBKAT | 2023
|NTIS | 2007
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