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I started with the “GoQBot” article (1) from my previous post. Finding it on the CMU Library website, I clicked the link to view papers cited in it. I found a brief article called “Caterpillar Kinematics” (2), which describes the evasive rolling maneuver caterpillars are capable of doing. This movement was the biological inspiration for
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GoQBot is a soft-bodied robot that mimics the evasive rolling maneuver observed in many caterpillar species; this maneuver is capable of generating an immense amount of force for a short amount of time. Huai-Ti Lin, Gary G. Leisk, Barry Trimmer. GoQBot: A Caterpillar-Inspired Soft-Bodied Rolling Robot. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Volume 6, Issue 2. Pages 026007.
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“A Soft Robotic Tongue–Mechatronic Design and Surface Reconstruction” (Lu, Xu, Li) presents a actuated device mimicking a tongue. I was interested in this article because of the range of complex surface deformations the authors were able to accomplish with just six pressure-controlled air chambers. @ARTICLE{ 8025393, author={ X. {Lu} and W. {Xu} and X. {Li}
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