A New Kind of Bionic Caterpillar Robot

With the progress of intelligent robotics, the application fields of robots have been expanding. As one of the important components, the bionic creeping robot has become a current research hotspot in the field of bionic robotics. In this article, a new bionic caterpillar robot composed of head, torso, tail and electronic control unit are designed. Based on the bionic caterpillar robot motion mechanism overrunning clutches and linkage, the principle of creeping of bionic caterpillar robot is proposed, and the feasibility of creeping posture is verified by establishing kinematic model. The attitude of creeping, head-swinging and steering is realized with the motor and servo, and controlled by cell phone application (APP), infrared remote control and artificial voice.