Whegs

Whegs are a series of robots developed at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University. Whegs use a strategy of locomotion that combines the simplicity of the wheel with the obstacle-clearing advantages of the foot.

Whegs robots were inspired by the Prolero robot, designed in 1996 at the European Space Agency, and the RHex robot, developed by a multiuniversity effort funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.[1] The mobility system is based on studies on the locomotion of the cockroach.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Whegs Series Robots
  2. ^ Comparing Cockroach and Whegs Robot Body Motions
  3. ^ Taubes, Gary (2000). "Biologists and Engineers Create a New Generation of Robots That Imitate Life". Science 288 (5463): 80–83. doi:10.1126/science.288.5463.80. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/288/5463/80.summary. Retrieved November 2011. (subscription required)

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