Articulated locomoting robots are the center of ongoing research project in the Robotics Institute Biorobotics lab. We call our robots Modsnakes because they have a modular, i.e. repeating, structure of the same element. Each module has a single rotational degree of freedom and when chained together, form the snake robot. By controlling the position of each module the robots can locomote over terrain and interact with their environment in ways more conventional robots cannot. This includes climbing the inside and outside of pipes.
Displaying 9 Publications
2012
Workshop Paper, NeurIPS '12 Workshop on Bayesian Optimization and Decision Making, December, 2012
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '12), November, 2012
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR '12), July, 2012
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4347 - 4354, May, 2012
2011
Workshop Paper, NeurIPS '11 Workshop on Bayesian Optimization, Experimental Design, and Bandits, December, 2011
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 357 - 364, September, 2011
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1069 - 1074, September, 2011
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-11-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2011
2009
Journal Article, Advanced Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 1131 - 1158, June, 2009
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- Austin Buchan
- Jason Geist
- Ross Hatton
- Cornell Wright III
- Aaron M Johnson