1998 Volume 64 Issue 617 Pages 273-278
In this work, we compared the locomotive efficiencies for various creep movement curves of snake locomotion, by analyzing the power density function and the ratio of the tangential force to the mormal force. The results show that the proposed Serpentine curve (S. Ma, JSME Trans., Vol. # 62, No. # 593 (C), pp. # 230-236, 1996) is more valid as the snake creeping locomotion shape than the Clothoid and Serpenoid curves (S. Hirose, Biologically Inspired Robots, Oxford University Press, 1993).
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