Abstract:Robots benefit from sensory information to coordinate body movement, gain robustness against perturbations, and transit between different modes to adapt to various terrains. However, few amphibious robots can sense interactions with both terrestrial and aquatic environments. In this paper, we present a solution that uses Hall-effect sensors to sense foot contact forces and lateral hydrodynamic forces on a salamander-inspired amphibious robot. With two bus lines, the robot can simultaneously acquire this exteroceptive information at more than 500 Hz and proprioceptive information, such as joint positions and loads, at 100 Hz. The Hall-effect sensors used are compact, making them suitable for embedding in multiple positions within a robot, and exhibit high sensitivity to small forces. Moreover, because the sensor can be positioned separately from the measured object, waterproofing can be implemented with relative ease. Our tests demonstrate the robot's capabilities in traversing amphibious environments and its potential in using feedback control for more complex locomotion tasks.
| Comments: | This work has been accepted for publication in the 2026 \it{International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, Vienna, Austria |
| Subjects: | Robotics (cs.RO) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.24465 [cs.RO] |
| (or arXiv:2605.24465v1 [cs.RO] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.24465 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
From: Qiyuan Fu [view email]
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