S-Rolling：低クリアランス環境で操舵可能なねじれヘビ型ロボットの転がり歩容
S-Rolling: Steerable Rolling Gaits for Twistable Snake Robots in Low-Clearance Environments
S字状の平面骨格曲線と中央のねじれ関節を用い、頭尾セグメントの転がり速度を独立制御することで、低い掃引高さを保ちながら平面操舵を可能にする転がり歩容を開発し、実機で10cmクリアランスの走行や車台下での旋回を実証した。
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著者: Qingling Fan, Zhongqiang Ren
分類: cs.RO
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Snake robots can traverse complex environments with limbless locomotion, but maneuvering in low-clearance environments remains challenging because a gait must maintain a small swept height while also providing planar steering. Existing rolling gaits preserve a low swept height body configuration but generally provide limited steering, whereas steering gaits often introduce vertical undulation and require additional clearance. With that in mind, this paper develops S-rolling, a steerable rolling gait that combines low swept height locomotion with planar maneuverability for twistable snake robots. S-rolling is designed using an S-shaped planar backbone curve, whose head and tail segments roll with independently controlled angular velocities, producing different motion modes. We derive its joint space gait equation, in which a central twist joint realizes the relative rotation between the two segments. We also develop a quasi-static kinematic model relating the segment rolling speeds to the linear and angular velocities of the robot. Real-robot experiments demonstrate the various motion modes, traversal through a 10 cm clearance test track, and maneuvering tasks beneath a large workpiece and a car chassis. In these low-clearance scenarios, S-rolling successfully performs approximately 90$^\circ$ and 180$^\circ$ heading changes, whereas the baseline rolling arc gait cannot change the robot heading.
