Research Question
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[3] Y. Jiang, D. Chen, H. Zhang, F. Giraud, and J. Paik, “Multimodal pipe-climbing robot with origami clutches and soft modular legs,” Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, vol. 15, no. 2, 2020, doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/ab5928.
[4] D. Qiaoling, L. Yan, and L. Sinan, “Design of a micro pole-climbing robot,” Int. J. Adv. Robot. Syst., vol. 16, no. 3, 2019, doi: 10.1177/1729881419852813.
Biomechanics Background and Initial Specifications
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[6] J. J. Tao, S. Huang, and Y. Tang, “SBOR: a minimalistic soft self-burrowing-out robot inspired by razor clams,” Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, vol. 15, no. 5, 2020, doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/ab8754.
[7] Y. Jiang, D. Chen, H. Zhang, F. Giraud, and J. Paik, “Multimodal pipe-climbing robot with origami clutches and soft modular legs,” Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, vol. 15, no. 2, 2020, doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/ab5928.
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[9] D. S. Dorsch and A. G. V. Winter, “Design of a low energy, self contained subsea burrowing robot based on localized fluidization exhibited by atlantic razor clams,” in Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 2014, vol. 5A, doi: 10.1115/DETC2014-34953.
[10] K. N. Nordstrom, D. S. Dorsch, W. Losert, and A. G. Winter, “Microstructural view of burrowing with a bioinspired digging robot,” Phys. Rev. E - Stat. Nonlinear, Soft Matter Phys., vol. 92, no. 4, 2015, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.042204.
Dynamics
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