A Novel Water Running Robot Inspired by Basilisk Lizards

Floyd, Steven; Keegan, Terence; Palmisano, John; Sitti, Metin

doi:10.1109/iros.2006.282111

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“…In practice, biologically inspired design has led to numerous innovative products [4]. Recent examples in engineering include design of micro robots that can walk on water mimicking the locomotion of the basilisk lizard [11], design of dry adhesives similar to how gecko's foot adheres to various surfaces [19,30], and design of selfcleaning materials inspired by a similar mechanism found in lotus leafs [37,44].…”

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Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

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Helms

Goel

2009

Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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Analogy is a fundamental process of creativity. Biologically inspired design by definition entails crossdomain analogies, and in practice has led to many innovative designs. Thus, biological inspired design is an ideal domain for studying creative analogies. In this paper, we describe an intricate episode of biologically inspired design that unfolded over an extended period of time. We then analyze the episode in terms of Why, What, How and When questions of analogy. This analysis provides a content theory of creative analogies in biologically inspired design.

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Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

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2009

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“…Compared with the moving method of a steamboat, this method can reduce the viscous drag force of water, which may improve the driver efficiency greatly. A quadruped robot was designed to imitate the water-running function, and the parameters of the robot, such as the feet size and the legs length, were calculated and optimized [1]- [3]. The robot can service on martial reconnaissance, monitoring water quality, exploring marsh and rescuing lives in floods, and so on [4].…”

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Dynamic analysis of fluid-structure interaction for the biped robot running on water

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Cao

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2012 12th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics &Amp; Vision (ICARCV)

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A novel biped robot inspired by basilisk lizards is designed to simulate the water-running function. The kinematic analysis of the running-mechanism is brought out to get the movement equations of the mechanism, and the numerical simulation results show that the feet trajectories of the robot are similar to basilisk lizards. For calculating the pressure distribution on a robot foot before touching water surface, the compression flow of air and depression motion of water surface are considered. The calculating model after touching water surface has been built according to the theory of the plane motion of a rigid body. The multi-material ALE algorithm is applied to emulate the course of the foot slapping water. Numerical simulation results indicate that the model of the bionic robot can satisfy the water-running function.

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“…By making full use of nano-technologies, Sitti et al developed the small-scale wall climbing robot using adhesive elastomer materials for attachment like gecko's skin [5]. Sitti et al also developed the robot running on the surface of water in a manner similar to basilisk lizards [1]. Simoyama et al developed a very small and light butterfly-type ornithopter that flies forward passively [7].…”

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A compact kick-and-bounce mobile robot powered by unidirectional impulse force generators

Tsuda

Mochiyama

Fujimoto

2009

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

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In this paper, we propose a compact kick-andbounce mobile robot powered by unidirectional impulse force generators. The unidirectional impulse force generator is a simple mechanical device for generating high-frequency impulse forces toward a certain direction unilaterally utilizing snapthrough bucklings. The proposed kick-and-bounce robot has a pair of the unidirectional impulse force generators as the muscles of its biped legs. The robot moves forward rapidly by the repetition of the kicks and bounces to the ground. We show that the developed palm-top mobile robot whose weight is of only 67[g] achieves the velocity of 0.8[m/s] instantaneously.

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A Novel Water Running Robot Inspired by Basilisk Lizards

Cited by 64 publications

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Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

Dynamic analysis of fluid-structure interaction for the biped robot running on water

A compact kick-and-bounce mobile robot powered by unidirectional impulse force generators

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