TY - GEN
T1 - A water walking robot inspired by water strider
AU - Zhao, Jie
AU - Zhang, Xinbin
AU - Pan, Qinmin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Recent studies on water striders have revealed the mechanism of their floating and walking on water. By fast swinging their middle legs backward and striking the water, water striders get the driving force to move forward. This paper introduces a new water walking robot mimicking the rowing locomotion of water strider. The robot weighs 10 g and utilizes superhydrophobic nickel foam sheets as supporting legs and a spring-based actuating mechanism. Motion and force analysis for the supporting legs and the spring-based actuating mechanism were made and corresponding mechanics analysis models were built, based on which the simulation analysis of the robot was carried out. The robot can move over a distance of 30 cm per stroke with an average speed of 30 cm/s. This robot not only can help us better understand the mechanism of water strider rowing on water, but also can be developed for many applications in water quality monitoring, aquatic exploration, search and rescue on water, etc. in the future.
AB - Recent studies on water striders have revealed the mechanism of their floating and walking on water. By fast swinging their middle legs backward and striking the water, water striders get the driving force to move forward. This paper introduces a new water walking robot mimicking the rowing locomotion of water strider. The robot weighs 10 g and utilizes superhydrophobic nickel foam sheets as supporting legs and a spring-based actuating mechanism. Motion and force analysis for the supporting legs and the spring-based actuating mechanism were made and corresponding mechanics analysis models were built, based on which the simulation analysis of the robot was carried out. The robot can move over a distance of 30 cm per stroke with an average speed of 30 cm/s. This robot not only can help us better understand the mechanism of water strider rowing on water, but also can be developed for many applications in water quality monitoring, aquatic exploration, search and rescue on water, etc. in the future.
KW - Water walking robot
KW - mechanics analysis model
KW - rowing on water
KW - spring-based actuating mechanism
KW - water strider
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84867587246
U2 - 10.1109/ICMA.2012.6283380
DO - 10.1109/ICMA.2012.6283380
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:84867587246
SN - 9781467312776
T3 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012
SP - 962
EP - 967
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012
T2 - 2012 9th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012
Y2 - 5 August 2012 through 8 August 2012
ER -