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Biologically Inspired Trunk and Tentacle Robots
Ian D. Walker In-Space Non-Destructive Inspection Technology Workshop
NASA/Johnson Space Center, February 29-March 1, 2012
CLEMSON U N I V E R S I T Y
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Overview
• Tongue. trunk, tentacle robots – biologically inspired
• Snakes and hard backbones • Continuum trunks and soft tentacles • Summary
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Traditional Robotic Designs
Conventional Robots • Traditional robots “anthropomorphic” • Based around long rigid link elements • Good for precision tasks in well structured
environments • Severely limited in cluttered environments • Poor for adaptation to “unstructured tasks”
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Trunk and Tentacle Structures
• More maneuverable backbone
• Can “wind around” environment better
• Enter, operate in tight spaces
• Envelop, grasp irregularly shaped objects War of the Worlds, Paramount, 2005
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Robot Trunks and Tentacles: How?
• Numerous examples in nature
• Vertebrate and invertebrate structures
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Biological Inspiration – Elephant
• Motivation for our initial efforts at
Clemson
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Example: Clemson Elephant Trunk (~2000)
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Biological Inspiration -Snakes
Tokyo Inst. Technology (Prof. Shigeo Hirose et al)
• Howie Choset (CMU, talk earlier today) • Rob Buckingham (OCR, talk later today)
OC Robotics
Gavin Miller
Howie Choset (CMU)
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Example: Clemson Elephant Trunk
Still rigid components
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Soft “Continuum” Robotic Manipulators
• Inspiration from biology - soft, flexible, continuous appendages (“tongues, trunks, and tentacles”)
• Compliant operation in unstructured/cluttered environments • Rich history, back to 1960’s
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Natural Continuum Structures
• Exploration, sensing, manipulation
Stability and balance
Fast, dynamic target acquisition
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Biological Inspiration – Octopus
Remarkable diversity and complexity of movement in soft structure
• At any point on arm: • elongation, shortening, bending, torsion,
variable stiffness
Roger Hanlon
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DARPA/DSO OCTOR Project (2003-07)
sOft robotiC manipulaTOR (OCTOR)
Clemson University: Electrical and computer engineering, psychology
Penn State Univ: Mechanical engineering, materials science
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Biomechanics, functional morphology of cephalopods
Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole: Cephalopod behavior
Hebrew University: Cephalopod neuromuscular control
Weizmann Institute Mathematical modeling, motion analysis of octopus
City Univ. of New York Artificial suckers
DARPA BioDynotics Program
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Example: DARPA Octarm (~2006)
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Biological Inspiration: Plants
• In particular, vines
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Example: NASA Tendril
Ron Diftler, NASA/JSC
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Biological Inspiration - Squid
Bill Kier
Brian Mccarty
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Example: Octarm
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How are they Made?
• Fairly wide design space • backbone type (segmented, continuum) • actuation type (motors/tendons, artificial muscles) • compliance/rigidity • extension/bending (torsion) • operation/control strategy
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Making Them Work is Not Easy!
• Many degrees of freedom to coordinate, sense • Passively/actively controlled • non-intuitive movements for operators
• Model and non-model based operation • Kinematic models fairly well established • Dynamic models emerging
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Summary
• New generation of robots corresponding to biological “tongues, trunks, and tentacles”
• Fairly wide design space • Expanding corresponding body of theory • Preferred design strongly a function of application
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Recent Survey Papers
• R.J. Webster III and B.A. Jones, “Design and Kinematic Modeling of Constant Curvature Continuum Robots: A Review”, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 29, No. 13, pp 1661-1683, November 2010.
• D. Trivedi, C.D. Rahn, W.M. Kier, and I.D. Walker, “Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research”, Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 5(2), pp. 99-117, 2008.