TY - GEN
T1 - Preliminary studies on modular snake robots applied on de-mining tasks
AU - Melo, Kamilo
AU - Paez, Laura
AU - Hernandez, Monica
AU - Velasco, Alexandra
AU - Calderon, Francisco
AU - Parra, Carlos
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper addresses recent developments on Modular Snake Robots suited for applications on de-mining tasks. Inclusion of robotic platforms on the de-mining process will help tasks like the recognizance and perception of dangerous areas, minimizing human risk. As a mobile robot, the modular snake robot can move in a uneven terrain similar to a mined scenario. That is why, the main research efforts have been done on locomotion. Several contributions on this area are reported including gaits like: closed chain rolling, lateral rolling and a gait that use a helix shape both on the outside of cylinders. Another gait studied regards the swing movement of a modular robot chain hanging from one of its end modules. Contributions on robot architecture are reported here, including a distributed model predictive control and a multi-camera and sensor fusion. The perception problem of these robots also are researched by our lab and a pair of developments are shown here.
AB - This paper addresses recent developments on Modular Snake Robots suited for applications on de-mining tasks. Inclusion of robotic platforms on the de-mining process will help tasks like the recognizance and perception of dangerous areas, minimizing human risk. As a mobile robot, the modular snake robot can move in a uneven terrain similar to a mined scenario. That is why, the main research efforts have been done on locomotion. Several contributions on this area are reported including gaits like: closed chain rolling, lateral rolling and a gait that use a helix shape both on the outside of cylinders. Another gait studied regards the swing movement of a modular robot chain hanging from one of its end modules. Contributions on robot architecture are reported here, including a distributed model predictive control and a multi-camera and sensor fusion. The perception problem of these robots also are researched by our lab and a pair of developments are shown here.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=83455200217&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LARC.2011.6086814
DO - 10.1109/LARC.2011.6086814
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83455200217
SN - 9781457716904
T3 - 2011 IEEE 9th Latin American Robotics Symposium and IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, LARC 2011 - Conference Proceedings
BT - 2011 IEEE 9th Latin American Robotics Symposium and IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, LARC 2011 - Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2011 IEEE 9th Latin American Robotics Symposium and IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, LARC 2011
Y2 - 1 October 2011 through 4 October 2011
ER -