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Analysis of Wormlike Robotic Locomotion on Compliant Surfaces

2010· article· en· 28 citations· W1978540956 on OpenAlex· 10.1109/tbme.2010.2066274

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Study design
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Teacher disagreement score
0.799
Threshold uncertainty score
0.683
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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Teacher spread
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Abstract

An inherent characteristic of biological vessels and tissues is that they exhibit significant compliance or flexibility, both in the normal and tangential directions. The latter in particular is atypical of standard engineering materials and presents additional challenges for designing robotic mechanisms for navigation inside biological vessels by crawling on the tissue. Several studies aimed at designing and building wormlike robots have been carried out, but little was done on analyzing the interactions between the robots and their flexible environment. In this study, we will analyze the interaction between earthworm robots and biological tissues where contact mechanics is the dominant factor. Specifically, the efficiency of locomotion of earthworm robots is derived as a function of the tangential flexibility, friction coefficients, number of cells in the robot, and external forces.

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The record

Venue
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Topic
Micro and Nano Robotics
Field
Physics and Astronomy
Canadian institutions
McGill University
Funders
not available
Keywords
CrawlingRobotFlexibility (engineering)Robot locomotionComputer scienceFunction (biology)Biological materialsControl engineeringSimulationEngineeringHuman–computer interactionMechanical engineeringArtificial intelligenceMobile robotRobot controlBiochemical engineeringBiologyMathematicsAnatomy
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes