Balloon Animal Robots: Reconfigurable Isoperimetric Inflated Soft Robots
Anthony D. Stuart,Zachary M. Hammond,Sean Follmer,Anthony D. Stuart,Zachary M. Hammond,Sean Follmer
This paper introduces a new class of soft reconfigurable robot: balloon animal robots. The balloon animal robot consists of a closed volume inflatable tube which can be reconfigured into structures of varying topology by a collective of simple sub-unit robots. The robotic sub-units can (1) drive along the length of the tube to localize a joint, (2) create pinch points that locally reduce the bendi...
