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Article #550Re: locomotion: crawling?
From: dr s hill
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 22:28
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 22:28
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cauhape@twg.com (Jeff P. Cauhape) writes: >A layman asks: >Does anyone know if snake-like locomotion has been seriously >considered for robotic locomotion? If so, can you point me >to references? Prof. Yoji Umetani's group at Physical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology has been working on snake-like locomotion since, at least, 1981. I can't locate any references here in my office, but Umetani showed a video of his work when he visited us in 1981. Then the machines were multi-segmented snakes, each segment had four wheels. The wheels were not powered, the snake-like oscillations provided the motive power to move the machine forward. The machine was tethered to it's power supply and computing system.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!nems!ark1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos!monu6!rdt143e From: rdt143e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (dr s hill) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: locomotion: crawling? Keywords: locomotion, legless Message-ID: <1990Jul5.222857.11237@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 5 Jul 90 22:28:57 GMT References: <7482@gollum.twg.com> Organization: Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melb., Australia Lines: 17