Abstract

The snake-like robot is composed of nine joints and the robot is proposed in this study. The serpentine locomotion mechanism of snake-like robot is studied and its moving model is established in the multi body system dynamics simulation the Software Recurdyn. The joint angle functions of serpentine locomotion are set up. We add some restrictions for model in Recurdyn and set moving functions. The simulation introduced the input of the joint angle function's influence on the winding movement of the snake-like robot. The simulation results show that the snake-like robot can complete the serpentine locomotion set before.

Keywords:

Recurdyn simulation, serpentine locomotion, snake-like robot,

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