对生物机器人海豚的性能优化,具有主动可变刚度控制
Di Chen1, Yan Xiong1, Bo Wang1
1State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)
|November 24, 2023
概括
这项研究为机器人海豚引入了一种新型的活跃可变刚度控制方法,提高了游泳速度和效率. 该方法使用电机扭矩控制来模拟扭矩弹,显著提高机器人游泳者的性能.
科学领域:
- 机器人技术 机器人技术 机器人技术
- 生物模拟学是一种生物模拟学.
- 控制系统 控制系统
背景情况:
- 水生动物调节身体的性,以有效地游泳.
- 机器人游泳者为了提高性能而努力进行动态刚度调整.
研究的目的:
- 为机器人海豚提出并验证一种主动可变刚度控制方法.
- 通过动态刚度调制来提高机器人游泳者的速度和效率.
主要方法:
- 利用电机的扭矩模式来创建一个可变的刚度元件,模仿扭矩弹.
- 使用拉格朗的方法开发了一个动态模型来分析可变刚性机制.
- 进行了广泛的实验以验证模型并探索刚性-频率关系.
主要成果:
- 在机器人海豚的尾巴关节中证明了有效的刚性调整.
- 实现了每秒1.12个身体长度的最大速度,增加了0.44个BL/s.
- 通过主动硬度控制,游泳效率提高了37%.
结论:
- 积极的刚性调整对于机器人游泳者性能至关重要.
- 拟议的扭矩控制方法为提高机器人游泳者的速度和效率提供了一种可行的方法.
- 这项研究为设计先进的机器人游泳器提供了洞察力.
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