Title :
A Reconfigurable Snake Robot Based on CAN-Bus
Author :
Yue, Zhang ; Xin, Li ; Xianli, Zhou
Author_Institution :
Mech. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract :
This paper introduces the project "Snake Robot" we made for our National Innovation Fund. This snake robot has the ability to creep and wriggle. It adapts reconfiguration in the design of mechanism, control and supervising software, and brings in CAN-Bus which makes it possible that snake robot can extend infinitely in theory. The trial outcome proves that the snake robot can control easily, move flexibly and finish serpentine and wriggle locomotion very well.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; controller area networks; mobile robots; CAN-bus; National Innovation Fund; control design; mechanism design; reconfigurable snake robot; serpentine locomotion; supervising software design; wriggle locomotion; Educational institutions; Joining processes; Joints; Real time systems; Robot kinematics; Servomotors; CAN-bus; Real-time; reconfigurable; snake robot;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (ICCSEE), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0689-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSEE.2012.123
