Passive Morphological Adaptation for Obstacle Avoidance in a Self-Growing Robot Produced by Additive Manufacturing
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DOI: 10.1089/soro.2019.0025
Abstract: This article presents strategies for the passive path and morphological adaptation of a plant-inspired growing robot that can build its own body by an additive manufacturing process. By exploiting the soft state of the thermoplastic… read more here.
Keywords: obstacle avoidance; morphological adaptation; growing robot; robot ... See more keywords
Path Planning Method With Constant Bending Angle Constraint for Soft Growing Robot Using Heat Welding Mechanism
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DOI: 10.1109/lra.2023.3260705
Abstract: Soft growing robots, a new soft mobile robot, have recently attracted considerable interest. There are many soft growing robots, some of which have irreversible growing and bending motion mechanisms. For such robots, path planning methods… read more here.
Keywords: growing robot; soft growing; path planning; method ... See more keywords