Title :
Design and implementation of intelligent mobile robots: practical aspects
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mechano-Aerosp. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
In order to design and implement practical intelligent mobile robots, configurational design is fundamental and crucial. The paper firstly focuses on the problem to select the optimal shape of an intelligent mobile robot when the application of the robot is specified, and it is pointed out that there are three basic shapes, i.e. (1) infinite rotational device such as wheels and crawler track, (2) legs, and (3) an articulated body. The author´s manufactured robots are classified among these or the combination of them. The control problems of these robots are also discussed
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; intelligent control; legged locomotion; mobile robots; articulated body; control problems; crawler track; infinite rotational device; intelligent mobile robots design; intelligent mobile robots implementation; legs; optimal shape selection; wheels; Actuators; Animals; Crawlers; Design engineering; Intelligent robots; Leg; Legged locomotion; Mobile robots; Shape control; Wheels;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE IECON 22nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2775-6
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.1996.570891
