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Although snake-like robots have several advantages over wheeled and track-wheeled mobile robots, their low energy-locomotion has limited their applications in long-range and outdoor fields. This work continues our previous efforts in designing and prototyping a muscle-driven snake-like robot to address their low energy efficiency limitation. An electro-pneumatic control hardware was developed to control the robot\u2019s locomotion and a control algorithm for generating the lateral undulation gait. The energy efficiency of a single muscle (i.e., PAM), a single 2-link module of the robot, and a 6-link snake robot were also studied. Moreover, the power consumption was derived for the snake locomotion to determine the cost of transportation as the index for measuring the performance of the robot. Finally, the performance of the robot was analyzed and compared to similar models. Our analysis showed that the power consumption efficiency for our robot is 0.21, which is comparable to the reported range of 0.016\u20130.32 from other robots. In addition, the cost of transportation for our robot was determined to be 0.19 compared to the range of 0.01\u20130.75 reported for the other mobile robots. Finally, the range of motion for the joints of the robot is \u00b130\u2218, which is comparable to the reported range of motion of other snake-like robots, i.e., 25\u2218\u201345\u2218.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/robotics12030089","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,21]],"date-time":"2023-06-21T02:30:51Z","timestamp":1687314651000},"page":"89","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Study of Energy-Efficient and Optimal Locomotion in a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle-Driven Snake Robot"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Marcela","family":"Lopez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4592-578X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mahdi","family":"Haghshenas-Jaryani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1016\/j.arcontrol.2017.09.006","article-title":"Snake robots","volume":"44","author":"Pettersen","year":"2017","journal-title":"Annu. 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