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ACM-R5H
Details
The ACM-R5H is a snake robot that can go where no human can go. It's designed to perform underwater inspections and search-and-rescue missions in hazardous environments.
- Creator
- Tokyo Institute of Technology and HiBot
- Country
- Japan π―π΅
- Year
- 2010
- Type
- Disaster Response, Industrial, Underwater
- Country
- Japan π―π΅
- Year
- 2010
- Type
- Disaster Response, Industrial, Underwater
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Did You Know?
This snake robot can perform motions that even real snakes can't, such as continuously rolling over its entire body. |
The technology is based on pioneering work in snake-robot design by Shigeo Hirose, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Amphibious design, resistant to dust and liquids, modular configuration.
- HEIGHT
- 12 cm | 4.7 in
- LENGTH
- 170 cm | 66.9 in
- WIDTH
- 12 cm | 4.7 in
- WEIGHT
- 7 kg | 15.4 lb (9-segment snake)
- SPEED
- 1.44 km/h | 0.9 mph
- SENSORS
- CCD cameras in the head and tail segments. Other sensors can be added.
- ACTUATORS
- 2 DC servomotors on each segment.
- POWER
- Each segment has battery and recharger.
- COMPUTING
- HiBot Mini2Axes SH2 microcontroller (on each segment). Head segment with ARM Cortex M4 CPU with Wi-Fi.
- SOFTWARE
- Custom embedded system
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 18 (for 9-segment snake, 2 DoF for each segment)
- MATERIALS
- Aluminum, rubber, and plastic parts.
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- http://www.hibot.co.jp
History
The first prototype was completed in 2005 at Shigeo Hirose's lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A product version was developed in 2010 by HiBot, a Tokyo Tech spin-off. The current version is commercially available. The price is dependent on the number of segments and desired sensors.