Soft robot system based on intelligent driver

  • Zhenyun Shi*
  • , Qiancheng Zhu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Soft robot, as a new type of flexible robot, is attracting more and more attention. How to build emergency ability in unpredictable environments is the key research goal of soft robot technology. For this problem, an intelligent driving-sensing based motion pattern and system component of semi-soft robot is proposed, and on this basis, the mechanism design configuration of each motion module is designed and established. By coupling the actuators with shape memory alloy drivers into a monolithic structure, dynamic model and kinematics model of robot joints are constituted. According to the model, the key parameters for mechanism design and driver design are determined. Robot shells are manufactured by high strength engineering plastics, and soft enclosure and asymmetric pelma are realized by 3D printing. Two types of alloy wires are fixed in the robot body, the radial basis function (RBF) neural network and support function are used to control the robot, and forward motion is finally tested, which verifies correctness of the proposed robot system model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2596-2602
Number of pages7
JournalBeijing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Volume42
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2016

Keywords

  • Crawling robot
  • Dynamic analysis
  • Kinematics analysis
  • Shape memory alloy
  • Soft robot

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