The motivation for this project is to provide a means to study the physics of sand-swimming, which is a behavior seen in certain desert snakes. A biomimetic self-contained scalable robotic snake was designed and built with the capability to move below the surface of granular media. Its ability to match arbitrary traveling waveforms while recording data for analysis makes it a first step towards understanding the physics of sand-swimming through experimental studies.

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Creator

• Benson, Brian C.
• Humphrey, Neal Keith

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043009-153413

Award

• Provost's MQP Award

Advisor

• Koehler, Stephan A.
• Stafford, Kenneth A.

Year

• 2009

Date created

• 2009-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Last modified

• 2023-01-20