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Fluidically Driven Robots with Biologically Inspired Actuators

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In this paper different robot applications are presented that are driven by flexible fluidic actuators. These pneumatically driven actuators are biologically inspired. The first robot presented is an eight legged walking machine with 48 compliant joints. Then an auto propulsive flexible endoscope will be presented, followed by a serpent and an elephant trunk.

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  1. Institute of Applied Computer Sciences, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, PO Box 3640, 76021, Karlsruhe, Germany

    S. Schulz, C. Pylatiuk, A. Kargov, R. Oberle, H. Klosek, T. Werner, W. Rößler, H. Breitwieser & G. Bretthauer

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  1. Department of Automatic Control and, System Engineering, University Sheffield, Mappin Street, S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK

    M. O. Tokhi

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    G. S. Virk

  3. Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, BD7 1DP, Bradford, UK

    M. A. Hossain

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Schulz, S. et al. (2006). Fluidically Driven Robots with Biologically Inspired Actuators. In: Tokhi, M.O., Virk, G.S., Hossain, M.A. (eds) Climbing and Walking Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26415-9_11

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