Research on obstacle climbing gait of snake‐like robot on high‐voltage cables cables

Yang, Zhiyong; Zhang, Zihao; Qiao, Fang; Zhang, Daode; Liu, Xing; Wang, Fan

doi:10.1049/ell2.12296

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“…[50][51][52] As shown in Figure 11, the application prospects of 3D printed dielectric elastomers or dielectric elastomer actuators are broad. The production printed by 3D printers can be used in the deep sea, planetary surfaces, 57 narrow confined spaces, high-voltage cables, 58 and other unstructured environments. Soft robots with modular structures have shown great advantages in industry, medical field, 59 post-disaster search and rescue fields.…”

Section: D Printing Of Dielectric Elastomer Actuatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

3D printing dielectric elastomers for advanced functional structures: A mini‐review

Zhang,

Wen,

Zhu

et al. 2023

J of Applied Polymer Sci

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Three‐dimensional (3D) printed bionic products play an important role in intelligent robotics, microelectronics, and polymers. The printing and manufacturing process of 3D printers is conducive to obtaining soft structures that meet specific requirements, and saves time and cost. Soft intelligent robotics, an emerging research field, has always been developed based on soft materials and actuators with their biological properties. This article reviews the current understanding of 3D bioprinting technologies for dielectric elastomers (DEs), DE actuators (DEAs) and soft robots, such as inkjet, extrusion, laser‐induced and stereolithography bioprinting. 3D printers for fabricating soft materials are presented and classified. The approaches to exploit 3D bioprinters for DEs/DEAs are as follows: (1) 3D printing DEAs utilize ionic hydrogel–elastomer hybrids that are analogous to human muscles, and the DEAs usually have flexible structures and large deformations with multiple functionalities. (2) An electrohydrodynamic (EHD) 3D printer confers high printing resolution and high production efficiency, which offers advantages such as full automation and flexible design. The optimal printing conditions are mainly determined by the effects of printing voltages and ink properties, which are related to the formation of the liquid cone and the printed line width. Furthermore, the advantages of 3D bioprinting technologies have accelerated their development and applications.

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Section: D Printing Of Dielectric Elastomer Actuatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

3D printing dielectric elastomers for advanced functional structures: A mini‐review

Zhang,

Wen,

Zhu

et al. 2023

J of Applied Polymer Sci

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“…The snake-inspired robots as a continuum robot (Wei et al , 2020) have reconfigurable modular structural units and unique merits in using its whole body’s flexible deformation for locomotion and grasping. Therefore, it can also be used in the deep sea (Ludvigsen and Sørensen, 2016), planetary surface (Hou et al , 2020; Liu et al , 2016), narrow confined spaces (Brunete et al , 2012), high-voltage cables (Wei et al , 2014; Yang et al , 2021) and other unstructured environments. Meanwhile, snake-inspired robots with modular structures and multiple gaits (Wang et al , 2017) have shown great advantages in industrial field, military field, medical field and post-disaster search and rescue fields (Jin et al , 2019; Zhang and Lu, 2020).…”

Section: Application Prospectmentioning

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The snake-inspired robots: a review

Yang

Zheng²,

Lu³

et al. 2022

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Purpose Snake-inspired robots are of great significance in many fields because of their great adaptability to the environment. This paper aims to systematically illustrate the research progress of snake-inspired robots according to their application environments. It classifies snake-inspired robots according to the numbers of degrees of freedom in each joint and briefly describes the modeling and control of snake-inspired robots. Finally, the application fields and future development trends of snake-inspired robots are analyzed and discussed. Design/methodology/approach This paper summarizes the research progress of snake-inspired robots and clarifies the requirements of snake-inspired robots for self-adaptive environments and multi-functional tasks. By equipping various sensors and tool modules, snake-inspired robots are developed from fixed-point operation in a single environment to autonomous operation in an amphibious environment. Finally, it is pointed out that snake-inspired robots will be developed in terms of rigid and flexible deformable structure, long endurance and multi-function and intelligent autonomous control. Findings Inspired by the modular and reconfigurable concepts of biological snakes, snake-inspired robots are well adapted to unknown and changing environments. Therefore, snake-inspired robots will be widely used in industrial, military, medical, post-disaster search and rescue applications. Snake-inspired robots have become a hot research topic in the field of bionic robots. Originality/value This paper summarizes the research status of snake-inspired robots, which facilitates the reader to be a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the research progress of snake-inspired robots. This helps the reader to gain inspiration from biological perspectives.

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Research on obstacle climbing gait of snake‐like robot on high‐voltage cables cables

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

3D printing dielectric elastomers for advanced functional structures: A mini‐review

3D printing dielectric elastomers for advanced functional structures: A mini‐review

The snake-inspired robots: a review

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