Robotpark ACADEMY » Peristaltic Locomotion http://www.robotpark.com/academy World's Largest Robot Resource Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:10:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 A New Form of Peristaltic Locomotion in a Robot – 11062 http://www.robotpark.com/academy/a-new-form-of-peristaltic-locomotion-in-a-robot-11062/ http://www.robotpark.com/academy/a-new-form-of-peristaltic-locomotion-in-a-robot-11062/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:43:08 +0000 http://www.robotee.com/?p=1660 Earthworms travel by contracting their body segments sequentially.  This method of locomotion is particularly effective in constrained spaces. Soft worm robots may eventually have application...

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]]> Earthworms travel by contracting their body segments sequentially.  This method of locomotion is particularly effective in constrained spaces. Soft worm robots may eventually have application in pipe inspection, burrowing, or exploration.  Understanding the physics and control of this motion is a problem we are addressing with mechanical models, mathematics and computer simulation.

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