Design and realization of a novel reconfigurable robot with serial and parallel mechanisms

  • Wei Wang*
  • , Houxiang Zhang
  • , Guanghua Zong
  • , Jianwei Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Civil rescue and military reconnaissance are domains that involve a great amount of manpower; and it is quite dangerous and laborious in a hostile environment. This paper presents a novel field robot JL-I based on reconfiguration for these applications. The robotic system consists of 3 uniform modules; each module is an entire robotic system that can perform distributed activities. In order to meet the requirements of highly adaptive locomotion capabilities, the applied mechanical structure of the robot is employed to drive the serial and parallel mechanisms to form an active joint for changing shape in three dimensions. After summarizing the basic functions provided by this system, the mechanical structure, the control system and the locomotion capabilities of JL-I are introduced in detail. Finally the successful on-site tests confirm the principles described above and the robot's ability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006
Pages697-702
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006 - Kunming, China
Duration: 17 Dec 200620 Dec 2006

Publication series

Name2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006

Conference

Conference2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityKunming
Period17/12/0620/12/06

Keywords

  • Mechanical structure
  • Reconfigurable robot
  • Serial and parallel mechanism

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