Abstract
Biologically inspired by water strider, water strider robot uses surface tension force produced by supporting leg to stay and walk on water surface. The robot’s loading capacity can be known through statics analysis. A static model of the supporting leg is created and the maximum surface tension condition, that is the surface-breaking condition, is analyzed. Then the calculation methods of supporting force and maximum allowed onto-water depth are proposed. For several materials, the curves between surface tension and contact angle, which are based on the proposed model and method, are shown using the Matlab program. The theoretical calculation results of the supporting force and the maximum allowed onto-water depth are compared with experimental data. Then the validity of the proposed models and methods is verified.
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Wu, L., Yang, Y., Yang, G., Gui, X. (2013). Statics of Supporting Leg for a Water Strider Robot. In: Sun, Z., Deng, Z. (eds) Proceedings of 2013 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38460-8_39
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