Ebook: Snake Robots: Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control
- Tags: Robotics and Automation, Control, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Mechatronics
- Series: Advances in Industrial Control
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impossible. Future applications of such robots include search and rescue, inspection and maintenance, and subsea operations. Locomotion in unstructured environments is a focus for this book.
The text targets the disparate muddle of approaches to modelling, development and control of snake robots in current literature, giving a unified presentation of recent research results on snake robot locomotion to increase the reader’s basic understanding of these mechanisms and their motion dynamics and clarify the state of the art in the field. The book is a complete treatment of snake robotics, with topics ranging from mathematical modelling techniques, through mechatronic design and implementation, to control design strategies. The development of two snake robots is described and both are used to provide experimental validation of many of the theoretical results.
Snake Robots is written in a clear and easily understandable manner which makes the material accessible by specialists in the field and non-experts alike. Numerous illustrative figures and images help readers to visualize the material. The book is particularly useful to new researchers taking on a topic related to snake robots because it provides an extensive overview of the snake robot literature and also represents a suitable starting point for research in this area.
Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impossible. Future applications of such robots include search and rescue, inspection and maintenance, and subsea operations. Locomotion in unstructured environments is a focus for this book.
The text targets the disparate muddle of approaches to modelling, development and control of snake robots in current literature, giving a unified presentation of recent research results on snake robot locomotion to increase the reader’s basic understanding of these mechanisms and their motion dynamics and clarify the state of the art in the field. The book is a complete treatment of snake robotics, with topics ranging from mathematical modelling techniques, through mechatronic design and implementation, to control design strategies. The development of two snake robots is described and both are used to provide experimental validation of many of the theoretical results.
Snake Robots is written in a clear and easily understandable manner which makes the material accessible by specialists in the field and non-experts alike. Numerous illustrative figures and images help readers to visualize the material. The book is particularly useful to new researchers taking on a topic related to snake robots because it provides an extensive overview of the snake robot literature and also represents a suitable starting point for research in this area.
Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impossible. Future applications of such robots include search and rescue, inspection and maintenance, and subsea operations. Locomotion in unstructured environments is a focus for this book.
The text targets the disparate muddle of approaches to modelling, development and control of snake robots in current literature, giving a unified presentation of recent research results on snake robot locomotion to increase the reader’s basic understanding of these mechanisms and their motion dynamics and clarify the state of the art in the field. The book is a complete treatment of snake robotics, with topics ranging from mathematical modelling techniques, through mechatronic design and implementation, to control design strategies. The development of two snake robots is described and both are used to provide experimental validation of many of the theoretical results.
Snake Robots is written in a clear and easily understandable manner which makes the material accessible by specialists in the field and non-experts alike. Numerous illustrative figures and images help readers to visualize the material. The book is particularly useful to new researchers taking on a topic related to snake robots because it provides an extensive overview of the snake robot literature and also represents a suitable starting point for research in this area.
Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
A Complex Model of Snake Robot Locomotion on Planar Surfaces....Pages 39-54
Development of a Mechanical Snake Robot for Motion Across Planar Surfaces....Pages 55-61
Analysis and Synthesis of Snake Robot Locomotion....Pages 63-87
Path Following Control and Analysis of Snake Robots Based on the Poincar? Map....Pages 89-101
A Simplified Model of Snake Robot Locomotion on Planar Surfaces....Pages 103-129
Analysis of Snake Robot Locomotion Based on Averaging Theory....Pages 131-151
Path Following Control of Snake Robots Through a Cascaded Approach....Pages 153-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Introduction to Part II....Pages 189-191
A Hybrid Model of Snake Robot Locomotion in Cluttered Environments....Pages 193-219
Development of a Mechanical Snake Robot for Obstacle-Aided Locomotion....Pages 221-237
Hybrid Control of Obstacle-Aided Locomotion....Pages 239-263
Path Following Control of Snake Robots in Cluttered Environments....Pages 265-286
Future Research Challenges of Snake Robot Locomotion....Pages 287-291
Introduction....Pages 1-36
Back Matter....Pages 293-317
Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impossible. Future applications of such robots include search and rescue, inspection and maintenance, and subsea operations. Locomotion in unstructured environments is a focus for this book.
The text targets the disparate muddle of approaches to modelling, development and control of snake robots in current literature, giving a unified presentation of recent research results on snake robot locomotion to increase the reader’s basic understanding of these mechanisms and their motion dynamics and clarify the state of the art in the field. The book is a complete treatment of snake robotics, with topics ranging from mathematical modelling techniques, through mechatronic design and implementation, to control design strategies. The development of two snake robots is described and both are used to provide experimental validation of many of the theoretical results.
Snake Robots is written in a clear and easily understandable manner which makes the material accessible by specialists in the field and non-experts alike. Numerous illustrative figures and images help readers to visualize the material. The book is particularly useful to new researchers taking on a topic related to snake robots because it provides an extensive overview of the snake robot literature and also represents a suitable starting point for research in this area.
Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
A Complex Model of Snake Robot Locomotion on Planar Surfaces....Pages 39-54
Development of a Mechanical Snake Robot for Motion Across Planar Surfaces....Pages 55-61
Analysis and Synthesis of Snake Robot Locomotion....Pages 63-87
Path Following Control and Analysis of Snake Robots Based on the Poincar? Map....Pages 89-101
A Simplified Model of Snake Robot Locomotion on Planar Surfaces....Pages 103-129
Analysis of Snake Robot Locomotion Based on Averaging Theory....Pages 131-151
Path Following Control of Snake Robots Through a Cascaded Approach....Pages 153-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Introduction to Part II....Pages 189-191
A Hybrid Model of Snake Robot Locomotion in Cluttered Environments....Pages 193-219
Development of a Mechanical Snake Robot for Obstacle-Aided Locomotion....Pages 221-237
Hybrid Control of Obstacle-Aided Locomotion....Pages 239-263
Path Following Control of Snake Robots in Cluttered Environments....Pages 265-286
Future Research Challenges of Snake Robot Locomotion....Pages 287-291
Introduction....Pages 1-36
Back Matter....Pages 293-317
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