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Design and control of a second-generation hyper-redundant mechanism


Abstract:

We present a refined, second-generation design, construction and integration, of a compact hyper-redundant snakelike robot, called "Woodstock." This robot has substantial...Show More

Abstract:

We present a refined, second-generation design, construction and integration, of a compact hyper-redundant snakelike robot, called "Woodstock." This robot has substantial advantages over our previous design iteration, "Snoopy," in terms of cost and performance. The robot is composed of six actuated universal joints which are serially chained to construct a twelve degrees of freedom snake-like robot optimized for strength and compactness. Any joint in the robot is strong enough to produce a torque that is capable of cantilevering the entire robot. This paper also presents the low-level system- control architecture, which is based on a high-speed RS-485 data bus; this allows the entire system to be operated with only two power and two data wires. The system is controlled from a remote computer on a wireless network and can also run over the Internet.
Date of Conference: 29 October 2007 - 02 November 2007
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 December 2007
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Conference Location: San Diego, CA, USA

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