AIMC Topic: Locomotion

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Dynamic Research on Nonlinear Locomotion of Inchworm-Inspired Soft Crawling Robot.

Soft robotics
Inchworm-inspired bionic soft crawling robot (SCR) composed of soft materials possesses preeminent active compliant deformation ability and has obvious advantages over traditional hard robots when moving in a confined space, which is up-and-coming ca...

Self-vectoring electromagnetic soft robots with high operational dimensionality.

Nature communications
Soft robots capable of flexible deformations and agile locomotion similar to biological systems are highly desirable for promising applications, including safe human-robot interactions and biomedical engineering. Their achievable degree of freedom an...

Variational Information Bottleneck Regularized Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Robotic Skill Adaptation.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have been widely studied for sequential decision-making problems, and substantial progress has been achieved, especially in autonomous robotic skill learning. However, it is always difficult to deploy DRL ...

Design of a special rigid wheel for traversing loose soil.

Scientific reports
Wheels play an important role in mobile robotics, wheelchairs and vehicles and represent an ideal solution for traversing rigid ground due to higher efficiency. Through traversing loose soil, the rigid wheels lose traction because of sinking and high...

Grass Cutting Robot for Inclined Surfaces in Hilly and Mountainous Areas.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Grass cutting is necessary to prevent grass from diverting essential nutrients and water from crops. Usually, in hilly and mountainous areas, grass cutting is performed on steep slopes with an inclination angle of up to 60° (inclination gradient of 1...

Experimental Investigations into Using Motion Capture State Feedback for Real-Time Control of a Humanoid Robot.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Regardless of recent advances, humanoid robots still face significant difficulties in performing locomotion tasks. Among the key challenges that must be addressed to achieve robust bipedal locomotion are dynamically consistent motion planning, feedba...

A Reinforcement Learning-Based Strategy of Path Following for Snake Robots with an Onboard Camera.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
For path following of snake robots, many model-based controllers have demonstrated strong tracking abilities. However, a satisfactory performance often relies on precise modelling and simplified assumptions. In addition, visual perception is also ess...

Agile and versatile climbing on ferromagnetic surfaces with a quadrupedal robot.

Science robotics
A climbing robot that can rapidly move on diverse surfaces such as floors, walls, and ceilings will have an enlarged operational workspace compared with other terrestrial robots. However, the climbing skill of robots in such environments has been lim...

Bioinspired 3D-Printed Snakeskins Enable Effective Serpentine Locomotion of a Soft Robotic Snake.

Soft robotics
We present a multi-material three-dimensional-printed snakeskin with orthotropic friction anisotropy, which permits undulatory slithering of a soft snake robot on rough surfaces. Such a snakeskin is composed of a soft skin base and embedded rigid sca...

Liquid metal droplet motion transferred from an alkaline solution by a robot arm.

Lab on a chip
The excellent motion performance of gallium-based liquid metals (LMs) upon the application of a modest electric field has provided a new opportunity for the development of autonomous soft robots. However, the locomotion of LMs often appears in an alk...