The intelligent leg design for cockroach robots based on differential gear structure

  • Jingmeng Liu*
  • , Jun Jiang
  • , Weihai Chen
  • , Wenjie Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In the design of cockroach robots, a major requirement is to increase the carrying capacity of the robots. This paper proposes a novel configuration for the leg design of cockroach robots. In this configuration, the operating principle of a differential gear in a car is used in the design of multi-legged robots, so the carrying capacity is doubled at the same situation, compared with conventional linkage based robots. Firstly, the movement performance of the mechanism, including the inverse kinematics is analyzed and a decoupling algorithm is presented to control the prototype. Secondly, the working space and carrying capacity is calculated and analyzed. Then the whole model is simulated by the combination of MATLAB and ADAMS. The result of the simulation shows an improved performance, which indicates that the mechanism design is reasonable and the analysis is correct.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011
Pages1654-1659
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: 21 Jun 201123 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011

Conference

Conference2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period21/06/1123/06/11

Keywords

  • ADAMS
  • decoupling algorithm
  • differential gear
  • multiplication
  • simulation

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