Design and testing of snake robot

Robots have become essential in helping humans in every field. In particular, robots are used to do what a human cannot do with repeatability and accuracy, or in risky missions. Like many machines, robots are usually inspired by nature. For example, the motion of a snake allows crawling in tight spaces like pipes, caves, and under damaged structures. Snake robots would be perfect candidates for such missions including inspection of pipes, collapsed building, narrow spaces, and similar situations. The purpose of this thesis project is to conduct applied research resulting in snake likerobot. The robot will be designed where it will move in any direction, relative to gravity while imitating a snake type motion. The design is expected to go through multiple iterations where inspection and testing through simulation will be conducted for improvement. The outcome of research is that a robot is demonstrating its ability to move in any direction by imitating snake type motion allowing it to accomplish missions as directed, particularly in situations where humans would be placed at given risk