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We detail the development of a novel propulsion system for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV's) inspired by the punting locomotion of the ‘Little Skate’. The hybrid legged, gliding and punting gait is a potential enabling technology for UUV access to complex littoral environments. Design, development and initial trials with the prototype vehicle are presented. A combination of video motion capture...
Water Strider Robot is a kind of bio-inspired micro robot that can stand and move on water surface via surface tension as insect water strider. Therefore WSR can save greatly energy because avoid from the water viscous drag, that is the main resistance to hinder the boat, submarine and fish-like robot. This makes it has the features of tiny drag, high speed, great agile, capability of accessing to...
This paper puts forward a novel design concept for building a 3-D hyper-redundant chain robot (HRCR) system, consisting of linked, identical modules and one base module. All the joints of this HRCR are passive and state controllable and share common inputs introduced by wire-driven control. The original prototype developed here, named 3D-Trunk, is used as a proof of concept. We will present its whole...
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