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SCIENCE ROBOTICS
卷 6, 期 55, 页码 -出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abe2922
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- NSF [1637446, 1915445, 1915355, 1935548]
- Army Research Office [GR10005043]
- Packard Foundation
- Early Career Faculty grant from NASA's Space Technology Research Grants Program
- NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1915445, 1915355] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1935548] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Robotic navigation on land, through air, and in water is well researched, but subterranean navigation remains largely unexplored due to higher interaction forces and lack of fundamental physics understanding. By deriving hypotheses from biological observation and physics of granular intrusion, researchers designed a burrowing robot that can control lift and drag forces underground, achieving faster burrowing than previous approaches. This advancement in robotic subterranean locomotion showcases the potential for future exploration in underground environments.
Robotic navigation on land, through air, and in water is well researched; numerous robots have successfully demonstrated motion in these environments. However, one frontier for robotic locomotion remains largely unexplored-below ground. Subterranean navigation is simply hard to do, in part because the interaction forces of underground motion are higher than in air or water by orders of magnitude and because we lack for these interactions a robust fundamental physics understanding. We present and test three hypotheses, derived from biological observation and the physics of granular intrusion, and use the results to inform the design of our burrowing robot. These results reveal that (i) tip extension reduces total drag by an amount equal to the skin drag of the body, (ii) granular aeration via tip-based airflow reduces drag with a nonlinear dependence on depth and flow angle, and (iii) variation of the angle of the tip-based flow has a nonmonotonic effect on lift in granular media. Informed by these results, we realize a steerable, root-like soft robot that controls subterranean lift and drag forces to burrow faster than previous approaches by over an order of magnitude and does so through real sand. We also demonstrate that the robot can modulate its pullout force by an order of magnitude and control its direction of motion in both the horizontal and vertical planes to navigate around subterranean obstacles. Our results advance the understanding and capabilities of robotic subterranean locomotion.
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