PROJECT ShapeShift

Team Members:Chetan Arora

Karthik RangarajanShivam Bhardwaj

Project Overview•The conventional robotic snakes are inefficient in locomotion and as the size of the robotic snake increases the complexity in controlling degree of freedom increases.

NYU Tandon School of Engineering (Spring 2018)ShapeShift

Proposal•Design a robotic snake which can shapeshift using mecanum wheel thereby increasing the dexterity of the motion and provides better applications.•The robot can also swirl around objects/pods/other forms of robots for transportation.

Concept design

Dynamics

What we racked up so far… •Designed the robot to shapeshift from car to snake.•Robot can move around forward, backward and most importantly sideways.•The bot can move like snake with ease than the conventional design.•The bot can also crawl through pipes.

Demo•Robot is controlled through Bluetooth app.

Applications•The bot can change shapes from conventional car mode to snake for ease in locomotion.•The robotic snake has better dexterity which can aid in pipe inspections used in nuclear

power plants, gas power plants and chemical plants.•The bot can carry objects and deliver without human interventions.

Future upgrades•Using actual wheels rather than PLA printed material so that the bot is capable of

navigating in various environment.•Connect 2 servo motors to the joint hinge for the bot to control directions and navigate in

rugged terrain.•Make the bot carry objects by itself and deliver where it is required.• Controlling it from anywhere in the world•Create a modular design for the robots to work in swarm which can communicate with

each other and perform combined tasks.•Making the bot amphibian i.e., capable of swimming underwater.