Title :
Study on a Novel Link-type Shape Shifting Robot
Author :
Li, Bin ; Wang, Jing ; Liu, Jinguo ; Wang, Yuechao ; Ma, Shugen
Author_Institution :
Robotics Lab., Shenyang Inst. of Autom.
Abstract :
A novel link-type shape shifting structure has been developed. It can change its shape to adapt to the environment and the task if need. The shape shifting modular robot has a novel link type modularized structure. Each module of the robot has the components such as the driving body component, the link arm and the offset joints. The offset joints have been proposed in the novel mechanism to improve the relative motion space between the adjacent modules. A tracked link-type shape shifting robot has been designed. Metamorphic experiment and unstructured environment experiment have shown high flexibility and mobility of the robot
Keywords :
mobile robots; driving body component; environment adaptation; link arm; link-type shape shifting robot; modular robot; offset joints; Content addressable storage; Intelligent control; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Robotics and automation; Shape; Environment adaptability; Link-type structure; Shape shifting robot;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2006. WCICA 2006. The Sixth World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0332-4
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2006.1713743
