Toward a gecko-inspired, climbing soft robot

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In this paper, we present a gecko-inspired soft robot that is able to climb inclined, flat surfaces. By changing the design of the previous version, the energy consumption of the robot could be reduced, and at the same time, its ability to climb and its speed of movement could be increased. As a result, the new prototype consumes only about a third of the energy of the previous version and manages to climb slopes of up to 84. In the horizontal plane, its velocity could be increased from 2 to 6 cm/s. We also provide a detailed analysis of the robot's straight gait.

Original languageEnglish
Article number106
JournalFrontiers in Neurorobotics
Volume13
Number of pages9
ISSN1662-5218
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19.12.2019
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
The publication of this work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in the funding programme Open Access Publishing.

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 Schiller, Seibel and Schlattmann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    Research areas

  • Apriltags, Climbing robot, Fast pneu-nets, Gecko-inspired robot, Mobile soft robots
  • Engineering

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