Towards a convivial control interface for a snake-like robot

A number of prior and actual work is available on the hyper-redundant and especially snake-like mechanisms, including our project. Since mechanical conception and control of this kind of machines meet original difficulties and requiers a certain research effort, majority of the related works focus in these areas. There is not any specific proposal about "How to interface such a robot in order to control?" This paper discusses some ideas on a convivial robot-human interface envisaged for testing control algorithms of a Snake-like Robot. This project consists on a real-time simulation of a snake locomotion type known as lateral undulation in order to develop a prototype. Discussion on the interfacing problem will follow a brief overview of snake locomotion and the presentation of our snake model and progression strategy.