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The objective of this research is to present the design of a robot able to act in highly unstructured environments. To do so, a spherical robot loosely based on the sea-urchin characteristics is introduced; to synthesize such characteristics a set of actuators were incorporated into a pendulum-based spherical robot in order to handle obstacles and hollows successfully, as demonstrated in the simulation results that are shown and discussed.
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Ocampo-Jiménez, J., Muñoz-Meléndez, A., Rodríguez-Gómez, G. (2014). Enhanced Locomotion of a Spherical Robot Based on the Sea-urchin Characteristics. In: Duff, A., Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Prescott, T.J., Verschure, P.F.M.J. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8608. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_21
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