Title
Modeling and Experiments on the Swallowing and Disgorging Characteristics of an Underwater Continuum Manipulator.
Abstract
Soft robots apply compliant materials to perform motions and behaviors not typically achievable by rigid robots. An underwater, compliant, multi-segment continuum manipulator that can bend, swallow, disgorge is developed in this study. The manipulator is driven by McKibben water hydraulic artificial muscle (WHAM). The mechanical properties of the WHAM are tested and analyzed experimentally. The kinematics model, which concerns about the variable diameter structure of the soft grippers, are established to simulate the behaviors of the manipulator among the bending, swallowing and disgorging procedure. A mouth-tongue collaborative soft robot assembled with another single-segment soft robot arm is presented. And its functions are experimentally testified. The distinctive functions were verified according to the experimental results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196780
ICRA
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2020
1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haihang Wang172.65
he xu23622.25
Fengshu Yu300.34
Xin Li400.68
Feng Chen521846.85
Siqing Chen600.34
junlong chen7102.55
Yonghui Zhang800.34
Xueshan Zhou900.34