• DocumentCode
    3136630
  • Title

    Method of 3-step switching for tri-ped robot using piezo actuator

  • Author

    Chen, Ping-Ho ; Liu, Ru-Feng ; Lian, Kuang-Yow

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tungnan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    5-8 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    2192
  • Lastpage
    2197
  • Abstract
    This paper develops a method of 3-step switching for a tri-ped (or tri-legged) robot using three piezo actuators. Each piezo actuator is of linear type driven by a piezo disk, a mechanism and a controller. Three piezo actuators individually drive three legs of the robot via P-R-R joints and links. The robot is able to move in any direction by an approach of 3-step switching based on stiffness rebalance. Analysis shows that inverse kinematics is better than forward kinematics to generate the command of 3-step switching by a back-propagation neural network.
  • Keywords
    actuators; backpropagation; control engineering computing; elasticity; legged locomotion; neural nets; robot kinematics; 3-step switching; backpropagation neural network; inverse kinematics; piezo actuator; piezo disk; stiffness rebalance; tri-legged robot; tri-ped robot; Actuators; Joints; Kinematics; Neural networks; Robots; Switches; Vectors; 3-step; Back-propagation neural network; Inverse kinematics; P-R-R; Piezo actuator;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1275-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMA.2012.6285683
  • Filename
    6285683