Principle of object support by Rope deformation and its application to Rope climbing by snake robot

Ryota Watanabe & Motoyasu Tanaka* Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, JapanRyota Watanabe received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. from the Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. He is currently with NACHI-FUJIKOSHI CORP., Toyama, Japan.Motoyasu Tanaka received the B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan in 2005, 2007, and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, he was with Canon, Inc., Tokyo. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, University of Electro-Communications. His research interests include biologically inspired robotics and dynamics-based nonlinear control. Dr. Tanaka is a recipient of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter in 2006 and the Best Poster Award at SWARM2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics in 2015. Tanaka is a member of IEEE, the Robotics Society of Japan, and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.