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Caterpillars are extraordinary climbers in nature. The caterpillar-like climbing is in fact slow, but a caterpillar’s multi-segment body trunk strongly enhances the climbing versatility and dexterity. In this study, we present a three-stage locomotion method to imitate the caterpillar-like climbing strategy. For practical implementation, a multi-segment modular robot is constructed, and the three-stage climbing method is successfully implemented on the robot, which confirms the effectiveness of the proposed climbing method.
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Chen, J., Richter, E., Zhang, J. (2013). Bio-inspired Caterpillar-Like Climbing Robot. In: Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Krapp, H.G., Verschure, P.F.M.J., Prescott, T.J. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8064. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39802-5_34
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