The Research of A Parent-children type robot system

A parent-children type robot currently being built at Harbin Institute of Technology is proposed. The parent robot is a quadruped hybrid robot based on behaviour control architecture weighing 25 KG and load capacity of 30 KG. The robot could move by wheels equipped on the feet with the speed up to 0.7m/s. On rough terrain, the robot could walk with speed up to 0.2m/s. The robot could climb stair, and turn around its centre of mass. It could carry up to seven children robot in its abdomen. The children robot is some modular reconfigurable track micro-robots. The children robot is compact, small and light. Weight of one module is 350 g. They could run separately, and several modules could reconfigure to chain robot or loop robot. Five modules children chain robot could climbing standard stairs. Experiments testified the performance of the parent robot and the children robot.