Calisti, M, Giorelli, M, Levy, G , Mazzolai, B, Hochner, B, Laschi, C and Dario, P (2011) An octopus-bioinspired solution to movement and manipulation for soft robots. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 6 (3). 036002. ISSN 1748-3182
Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182%2F6%2F3%2F036002
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Item Type: | Article |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
Soft robotics is a challenging and promising branch of robotics. It can drive significant improvements across various fields of traditional robotics, and contribute solutions to basic problems such as locomotion and manipulation in unstructured environments. A challenging task for soft robotics is to build and control soft robots able to exert effective forces. In recent years, biology has inspired several solutions to such complex problems. This study aims at investigating the smart solution that the Octopus vulgaris adopts to perform a crawling movement, with the same limbs used for grasping and manipulation. An ad hoc robot was designed and built taking as a reference a biological hypothesis on crawling. A silicone arm with cables embedded to replicate the functionality of the arm muscles of the octopus was built. This novel arm is capable of pushing-based locomotion and object grasping, mimicking the movements that octopuses adopt when crawling. The results support the biological observations and clearly show a suitable way to build a more complex soft robot that, with minimum control, can perform diverse tasks.
Subjects: | H Engineering > H671 Robotics |
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Divisions: | College of Science > Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology |
ID Code: | 46207 |
Deposited On: | 24 Aug 2021 14:01 |
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