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- A biomimetic sucker design featuring a V-shaped notch was developed, demonstrating the ability to switch between high and low friction states while maintaining strong adhesion, enhancing performance by up to 94%.*
- Two robots, the Adhesion Sliding Robot-1 (ASR-1) and Adhesion Sliding Robot-2 (ASR-2), were created to mimic these natural suckers, achieving successful movement on various surfaces and under challenging water conditions, indicating potential applications in environmental monitoring.*
Article Abstract
Net-winged midge larvae (Blephariceridae) are known for their remarkable ability to adhere to and crawl on the slippery surfaces of rocks in fast-flowing and turbulent alpine streams, waterfalls, and rivers. This remarkable performance can be attributed to the larvae's powerful ventral suckers. In this article, we first develop a theoretical model of the piston-driven sucker that considers the lubricated state of the contact area. We then implement a piston-driven robotic sucker featuring a V-shaped notch to explore the adhesion-sliding mechanism. Each biomimetic larval sucker has the unique feature of an anterior-facing V-shaped notch on its soft disc rim; it slides along the shear direction while the entire disc surface maintains powerful adhesion on the benthic substrate, just like the biological counterpart. We found that this biomimetic sucker can reversibly transit between "high friction" (4.26 ± 0.34 kPa) and "low friction" (0.41 ± 0.02 kPa) states due to the piston movement, resulting in a frictional enhancement of up to 93.9%. We also elucidate the frictional anisotropy (forward/backward force ratio: 0.81) caused by the V-shaped notch. To demonstrate the robotic application of this adhesion-sliding mechanism, we designed an underwater crawling robot Adhesion Sliding Robot-1 (ASR-1) equipped with two biomimetic ventral suckers. This robot can successfully crawl on a variety of substrates such as curved surfaces, sidewalls, and overhangs and against turbulent water currents with a flow speed of 2.4 m/s. In addition, we implemented a fixed-wing aircraft Adhesion Sliding Robot-2 (ASR-2) featuring midge larva-inspired suckers, enabling transit from rapid water surface gliding to adhesion sliding in an aquatic environment. This adhesion-sliding mechanism inspired by net-winged midge larvae may pave the way for future robots with long-term observation, monitoring, and tracking capabilities in a wide variety of aerial and aquatic environments.
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