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SoSpider: A bio-inspired multimodal untethered soft hexapod robot for planetary lava tube exploration

Lizhou Niu, Liang Ding, Shengjie Zhang, Huaiguang Yang, Haibo Gao, Zongquan Deng, Guangjun Liu, Mokarram Hossain Orcid Logo

SCIENCE CHINA Technological Sciences, Volume: 59, Pages: 183 - 190

Swansea University Author: Mokarram Hossain Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s11431-023-2519-9

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Soft robots have tremendous potential for applications in various fields, owing to their safety and flexibility embedded at the material level. Soft robots, especially bio-inspired soft legged robots, have become one of the most active fields of current research in robotics thanks to their superior...

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ISSN: 1674-7321 1869-1900
Published: 2023
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spelling v2 64690 2023-10-10 SoSpider: A bio-inspired multimodal untethered soft hexapod robot for planetary lava tube exploration 140f4aa5c5ec18ec173c8542a7fddafd 0000-0002-4616-1104 Mokarram Hossain Mokarram Hossain true false 2023-10-10 GENG Soft robots have tremendous potential for applications in various fields, owing to their safety and flexibility embedded at the material level. Soft robots, especially bio-inspired soft legged robots, have become one of the most active fields of current research in robotics thanks to their superior mobility and ability to face complex terrains. However, it is arduous to establish a dynamic simulation model for soft robots, owing to their hyper-redundant degrees of freedom, hyper-elasticity, and nonlinearity of their soft structures. In this study, we designed, simulated, and fabricated a hexapod robot that achieves walking, crawling, pronking, and rolling with wheeled legs plus a soft body capable of shape change. A robot prototype was fabricated using 3D printing technology and soft silicone pneumatic networks. Actuators, battery power, and control boards were integrated into the body of the robot for untethered locomotion. We have explored the capabilities of the robot in different conditions, especially in scenarios that simulate lunar and Martian environments, demonstrating the motion performance of the robot. The results have shown promising potentials of the developed robot for future applications in planetary lava tube exploration. Our experimental and simulation results also show good agreements that indicate the potential predictive roles of simulation tools for soft robot design, planning, and control. Journal Article SCIENCE CHINA Technological Sciences 59 183 190 1674-7321 1869-1900 Multimodal, soft robot, pneumatic, simulation, planetary exploration 28 9 2023 2023-09-28 10.1007/s11431-023-2519-9 https://engine.scichina.com/doi/pdf/CFC6DDB8F1654D85AC83FF36E0950FC9 COLLEGE NANME General Engineering COLLEGE CODE GENG Swansea University This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2019YFB1309500) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91948202 and 51822502). Hossain Mokarram acknowledges the support of the Royal Society through the International Exchange Grant (IECNSFC211316) with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2023-11-08T10:13:34.8688191 2023-10-10T11:35:18.6820339 Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - Uncategorised Lizhou Niu 1 Liang Ding 2 Shengjie Zhang 3 Huaiguang Yang 4 Haibo Gao 5 Zongquan Deng 6 Guangjun Liu 7 Mokarram Hossain 0000-0002-4616-1104 8 Under embargo Under embargo 2023-10-10T11:44:08.7202049 Output 2060760 application/pdf Accepted Manuscript true 2024-09-28T00:00:00.0000000 true eng
title SoSpider: A bio-inspired multimodal untethered soft hexapod robot for planetary lava tube exploration
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title_short SoSpider: A bio-inspired multimodal untethered soft hexapod robot for planetary lava tube exploration
title_full SoSpider: A bio-inspired multimodal untethered soft hexapod robot for planetary lava tube exploration
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Guangjun Liu
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description Soft robots have tremendous potential for applications in various fields, owing to their safety and flexibility embedded at the material level. Soft robots, especially bio-inspired soft legged robots, have become one of the most active fields of current research in robotics thanks to their superior mobility and ability to face complex terrains. However, it is arduous to establish a dynamic simulation model for soft robots, owing to their hyper-redundant degrees of freedom, hyper-elasticity, and nonlinearity of their soft structures. In this study, we designed, simulated, and fabricated a hexapod robot that achieves walking, crawling, pronking, and rolling with wheeled legs plus a soft body capable of shape change. A robot prototype was fabricated using 3D printing technology and soft silicone pneumatic networks. Actuators, battery power, and control boards were integrated into the body of the robot for untethered locomotion. We have explored the capabilities of the robot in different conditions, especially in scenarios that simulate lunar and Martian environments, demonstrating the motion performance of the robot. The results have shown promising potentials of the developed robot for future applications in planetary lava tube exploration. Our experimental and simulation results also show good agreements that indicate the potential predictive roles of simulation tools for soft robot design, planning, and control.
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