Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
Animals with soft bodies, such as snail and caterpillars, often exhibit excellent adaptivity to various terrain. For the purpose to clarify their excellence , the authors take a synthetic approach by constructing flexible robots which resemble their motion. In this paper, we develop a soft-bodied mobile robot using gel in which multiple shape memory alloy actuators in V-shaped arrangement. By applying periodic voltage with certain phase difference, we show that a surface wave appears on the robots belly, which results in its forward locomotion.
