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| A Unified Representation of the Actuation Signals of Earthworm-like Locomotion RobotsBased on Travelling-Wave Functions |
| MAO Qianqian1,2,3, ZHANG Shu4, XU Jian1,2,3, FANG Hongbin1,2,3 |
1. Institute of AI and Robotics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
2. Engineering Research Center of AI & Robotics, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
3. Shanghai Engineering Research Center of AI & Robotics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
4. School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China |
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Abstract A unified representation of the actuation signals of earthworm-like locomotion robots based on travelling-wave functions is proposed. Firstly, the expression of the actuation signals based on travelling-wave functions is derived for the continuum earthworm-like locomotion robots, and a method is presented to construct the waveform generation functions of the actuation signals. Secondly, the expression of the actuation signals based on travelling-wave functions is reformulated for the multi-segment earthworm-like locomotion robots, which can be transformed into that of the continuum robots in the following mathematical proof. Next, the actuation signal expressions are briefly introduced when there are actuation signals with different wave speeds and when there are different waveform generation functions of actuation signals on different parts of the robot. Finally, the representation proposed is applied to a continuum earthworm-like locomotion robot and two multi-segment earthworm-like locomotion robots. Both the original actuation signal expressions and the new ones get the same results, showing the great applicability of the proposed representations.
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Received: 28 June 2020
Published: 07 April 2021
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