Meshworm: A peristaltic soft robot with antagonistic nickel titanium coil actuators

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1485-1497

  Seok, Sangok ^a   Onal, Cagdas Denizel ^b   Cho, Kyu Jin ^c   Wood, Robert J ^d   Rus, Daniela ^b   Kim, Sangbae ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinspired robotics; earthworm robot; nickel titanium (NiTi) coil springs; peristaltic locomotion; shape memory alloy (SMA) actuation; soft robotics

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROLLERS; COIL SPRING; LONGITUDINAL MUSCLES; MARTENSITE DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS(SMA); SOFT ROBOTICS;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; NICKEL; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); TITANIUM; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84880573730     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2012.2204070     Document Type: Article

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