Versatile Motion Generation of Magnetic Origam Spring Robots in the Uniform Magnetic Field

Magnetic soft robots have attracted widespread attention for their untethered, remotely operated, and compliant deformation characteristics. Earlier work has demonstrated magnetic origami robots' diverse locomotion capabilities. This letter will focus on the motion generation and open-loop control of an untethered magnetic flexible robot with a stretch-twist coupling origami spring (OS) skeleton only using uniform magnetic field control. We investigate the associated motion generation mechanism and the corresponding control signals for the magnetic spring robot (MSR). The MSR can perform in-plane crawling (Worm Crawling) and perpendicular in-plane crawling (Crab Crawling) under twodimensional magnetic signal inputs. Moreover, the OS's stretchtwist coupling characteristic is utilized to achieve axial Rolling Motion with axial magnetization configuration. We further experimentally tested the performance of three motions with average normalized velocities of 0.34 +/- 0.039(body length/s), 0.054 +/- 0.0066(body length/s), and I 46 +/- 0.069(body length/s), respectively.

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This study investigates the motion generation and control of an untethered magnetic flexible robot with a stretch-twist coupling origami spring skeleton, using uniform magnetic field control. The robot can perform various motions under two-dimensional magnetic signal inputs, including in-plane crawling and axial rolling motion.