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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Actuated Bivalve Robot -- Study of the Burrowing Locomotion in Sediment
Organization Unit
Authors
  • A Koller-Hodac
  • Daniel Germann
  • A Gilgen
  • K Dietrich
  • M Hadorn
  • W Schatz
  • P Eggenberger Hotz
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Page Range 1209 - 1214
Event Title IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Event Type conference
Event Location Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Event Start Date May 3 - 2010
Event End Date May 8 - 2010
Abstract Text This paper presents the design and control of an actuated bivalve robot, which has been developed to study the burrowing locomotion of bivalves in sediment. The setup consists of a tank filled with sand and water, plastic models of bivalve shells capable of expelling water and an external actuation mechanism simulating the rocking burrowing motion typically used by these animals. The realistic shell shapes have been realized using three-dimensional plotting techniques allowing testing influences of different shell shapes and surface structures (sculptures) on the burrowing efficiency. Based on the experimental setup, the burrowing process has been reproduced. The results show that this setup can be used to identify correlations in the burrowing process. Further experimental work will investigate the influence of factors such as shell shape and sculpture or the motion sequence on the burrowing performance. Keywords: biorobotics; biomimetics; burrowing locomotion; bivalves
Official URL http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=05509329
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509329
Other Identification Number 1380; merlin-id:65
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