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Open AccessDesign of A Novel Wheel-Legged Robot with Rim Shape Changeable Wheels
The wheel-legged hybrid structure has been utilized by ground mobile platforms in recent years to achieve good mobility on both flat surfaces and rough terrain. However, most of the wheel-legged robots only ha...
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Open AccessNuBot: A Magnetic Adhesion Robot with Passive Suspension to Inspect the Steel Lining
The steel lining of huge facilities is a significant structure, which experiences extreme environments and needs to be inspected periodically after manufacture. However, due to the complexity (crisscross welds...
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Open AccessTask-Oriented Topology System Synthesis of Reconfigurable Legged Mobile Lander Integrating Active and Passive Metamorphoses
To explore hostile extraterrestrial landforms and construct an engineering prototype, this paper presents the task-oriented topology system synthesis of reconfigurable legged mobile lander (ReLML) with three o...
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Open AccessInverted Modelling: An Effective Way to Support Motion Planning of Legged Mobile Robots
This paper presents an effective way to support motion planning of legged mobile robots—Inverted Modelling, based on the equivalent metamorphic mechanism concept. The difference from the previous research is t...
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Open AccessModeling and Configuration Design of Electromagnetic Actuation Coil for a Magnetically Controlled Microrobot
Non-contact actuated microbeads have attracted a lot of attention in recent years because of its enormous potential in medical, biological, and industrial applications. Researchers have proposed a multitude of...