Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
Snail’s locomotion makes it possible to move on uneven walls. In order to apply the locomotion to wall crawling robots, in this paper, we designed soft robot and mucus mimicking snails. The soft robot was made by molding rubber and drives with pneumatic pressure. By contracting the pneumatic chamber in order from the rear, peristaltic motion is reproduced and move. Mucus was manufactured using LAPONITE . Adjusting the concentration and additives gives the kinematic viscosity, and it can be applied to walking with mucus.
