This paper presents a new bio-inspired leg-wheel robot "HopMote" that can serve as a hopping node for mobile sensor networks. The proposed robot, which is 9cm in height and 250g in weight, can leap over obstacles more than 4 times its own size. It depends on the elastic elements in a six-bar linkage leg system to enable jump locomotion. It can also roll freely and change its directions by the two-wheeled differential drive system. It adopts the ZigBee protocol for wireless communication and therefore can be added to a ZigBee-based sensor network as a mobile video sensor node. Its effectiveness is verified by some performance tests including jump locomotion and multi-hop image transmission. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.
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Wang, H., Song, G., Zhang, J., & Meng, T. (2012). A bio-inspired jumping robot for mobile sensor networks over rough terrain. In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (Vol. 142 LNEE, pp. 57–62). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27314-8_9
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