Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference
THE 59TH JAPAN JOINT AUTOMATIC CONTROL CONFERENCE
Session ID : ThB7-3
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A Path-following Feedback Control Method of a Snake-like Robot with Multiple Steering Systems
*K. NogiH. YamaguchiN. Yonezawa
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This paper presents a new path-following feedback control method of a snake-like robot with multiple steering systems. Wheels of the steering systems are all passive. The snake-like robot transforms periodic driving of its joints into its movement through periodic operation of its steering systems. Especially, the orientations of the links are controllable via the steering systems so that it is possible to cause the midpoints of all the links to follow a single path, which facilitates to examine the collision of any part of the robot with obstacles in advance. The validity of this method has been verified in simulations.

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