5 accepted papers
The energy of water surface jumping is easily lost due to the fluidity and splashing of water. As the robot's size and mass increase, its jumping performance is more significantly affected. The key to increasing the robot's takeoff velocity is enhancing the impulse generated by efficient hydrodynami
Water striders slide agilely and quickly on the water surface with the spatial elliptical rowing trajectory, it has attracted the research interest of scholars. But the existing bionic robots did not realize the level of it and generally suffer from slow speed and weak load capacity. Inspired by the
The amazing ability of water striders on water surface has attracted many scholars. Especially the flexible driving mechanism enable the driving legs conform to the deformation of the water surface, which effectively improving water striders’ floating ability and stability. However, the current rese…
Aiming at mimicking the jumping locomotion of water striders, a new continuous jumping robot on water is proposed. Compared with the horizontal rowing motion, the jumping capability of water striders is challengeable to imitate, since the impact force on water is easy to cause the sinking of the rob
Aiming at mimicking water strider's water-surface locomotion, this study proposes a new miniature surface tension-driven robot. A key feature of this robot is that its actuating legs possess ellipse-like spatial trajectories like water strider by using a cam-link mechanism, and never pierces water s…