Snake Robot Design



 

The main challenge in designing snake robots deals with putting actuated joints in a tight volume where we minimize the length and cross sectional areas of the links between the joints. The main concept of our design, as well as many others, is to stack two degree-of-freedom joints on top of each other, forming a snake robot. There are three main schools of designs for these kinds of robots: actuated universal joints, angular swivel joints and angular bevel joints.


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Completed Projects:
Medusa

Medusa Support Projects:

Angular Swivel Design
Angular Bevel Design
Feeder Mechanism


Snoopy

Snoopy Support Projects:

Actuated Universal Joint Design

Mobile Base ETR
Elephant Trunk Robot


New Projects:

Snake on a Stick

Large Snake

Surgical Snake

Small Industrial Inspection Snake

LSTAT

Waterwiggle Snake


 


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