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Search and rescue robots would benefit from versatile locomotion ability and hence cope with varying environments. Robot snakes, with hyper-redundant body and unique gaits, offer a promising solution to search and rescue applications. This paper presents a portable design of robot snakes that can be controlled from commercial mobile devices like the smartphones. The control results are validated and demonstrated using hardware prototypes.
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Luo, Y., Liu, J., Gao, Y., Lu, Z. (2014). Smartphone-Controlled Robot Snake for Urban Search and Rescue. In: Zhang, X., Liu, H., Chen, Z., Wang, N. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8917. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13966-1_35
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