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24-02-2015 | Technical Paper

Design and performance evaluation of a biomimetic microrobot for the father–son underwater intervention robotic system

Authors: Chunfeng Yue, Shuxiang Guo, Liwei Shi

Published in: Microsystem Technologies | Issue 4/2016

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Abstract

Underwater intervention is a favorite and difficult task for AUVs. To realize the underwater manipulation for the small size spherical underwater robot SUR-II, a father–son underwater intervention robotic system (FUIRS) is proposed in our group. The FUIRS employs a novel biomimetic microrobot to realize an underwater manipulation task. This paper describes the biomimetic microrobot which is inspired by an octopus. The son robot can realize basic underwater motion, i.e. grasping motion, object detection and swimming motion. To enhance the payload, a novel buoyancy force adjustment method was proposed which can provides 11.8 mN additional buoyancy force to overcome the weight of the object in water. Finally, three underwater manipulation experiments are carried out to verify the performance of the son robot. One is carried by swimming motion and buoyancy adjustment; the other two are only carried by buoyancy adjustment. And the experimental results show that the son robot can realize the underwater manipulation of different shape and size objects successfully. The swimming motion can reduce the time cost of underwater manipulation remarkably.

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Metadata
Title
Design and performance evaluation of a biomimetic microrobot for the father–son underwater intervention robotic system
Authors
Chunfeng Yue
Shuxiang Guo
Liwei Shi
Publication date
24-02-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Microsystem Technologies / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0946-7076
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1858
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-015-2471-1

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