1. Preface
Robot snake is a branch of robot technology, which is different from the traditional robot with wheels,
legs, or tracks. The robot snake moves through twisting and stretching the “body” to achieve the so-called
“No limb movement”. This kind of movement has good stability, smaller cross-sectional area, high
flexibility and so on. The robot snake with these features can replace the human operations in some
dangerous situations, such as the inspection and maintenance of internal parts in nuclear power plants,
petrochemical equipment; the pipeline leak check and repair. Besides this, the robot snake can also make
the detection, rescue or maintenance more effective.
The paper provides a wireless remote control robot snake design based on a wave model which is
built up from the perspective of bionics of snakes and theories of robot dynamics and tribology.
Mechanical, electronic and automatic control subject are also involved in the design.