Michael B. Wooten
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View article: Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots
Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots Open
Applications in remote inspection and medicine have motivated the recent development of innovative thin, flexible-backboned robots. However, such robots often experience difficulties in maintaining their intended posture under gravitationa…
View article: Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots
Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots Open
Applications in remote inspection and medicine have motivated the recent development of innovative thin, flexible-backboned robots. However, such robots often experience difficulties in maintaining their intended posture under gravitationa…
View article: Vine-Inspired Continuum Tendril Robots and Circumnutations
Vine-Inspired Continuum Tendril Robots and Circumnutations Open
Smooth-backboned “continuum” robot structures offer novel ways to create robot shapes and movements. In this paper, we show how circumnutation, a motion strategy commonly employed by plants, can be implemented and usefully exploited with c…
View article: Novel vine-like continuum robot for environmental exploration applications
Novel vine-like continuum robot for environmental exploration applications Open
This thesis details a new design and novel operational strategies for nature inspired, thin "tendril" continuum robots. Instead of taking inspiration for robot design from insects or animals, the novel approach to continuum robotics herein…