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Yongdong Wang1, Tetsushi Kamegawa1
1Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Abstract:
The movement capabilities of snake robots allow them to be applied in a variety of applications. We realized a snake robot climbing in crowded pipes. In this paper, we implement a sinusoidal curve control method that allows the snake robot to move faster. The control method is composed of a hybrid force-position controller that allows the snake robot to move more stably. We conducted experiments to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method is stable and effective compared to the previous control method that we had implemented in the snake robot.
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