打开连续机器人 - - 一个执行模块来创建它们
Reinhard M Grassmann1, Chengnan Shentu1, Taqi Hamoda1
1Continuum Robotics Laboratory, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
Frontiers in robotics and AI
|February 5, 2024
概括
研究人员开发了一种开源的执行模块,用于构建连续机器人. 该模块使机器人能够感知外部力量,推动了机器人动力学和控制方面的研究.
科学领域:
- 机器人技术 机器人技术 机器人技术
- 机械工程 机械工程
- 控制系统 控制系统
背景情况:
- 连续性机器人研究受到商业平台缺乏的阻碍,导致碎片化,单一出版的原型.
- 显著的研究力度被转移到开发专有硬件和软件上,阻碍了核心挑战的进展.
研究的目的:
- 提出一个开源的执行模块,用于构建多功能连续机器人.
- 为了展示用此模块构建的连续机器人的能力,用于自感应力传感.
- 通过开源硬件和软件培养一个协作研究环境.
主要方法:
- 设计并实施了一种开源的执行模块,包括一个高扭矩无刷电机,高分辨率光学编码器和低变速比变速箱.
- 使用开发的执行模块构建了三种不同类型的连续机器人.
- 研究并验证了制造的连续机器人的自身感应力传感能力.
主要成果:
- 通过使用统一的开源驱动模块成功构建了三种不同的连续机器人配置.
- 首次证明连续机器人可以通过自身感知来检测外部力.
- 建立了探索连续机器人的先进控制和动态的基础.
结论:
- 拟议的开源激活模块通过提高可访问性和可重复性来民主化连续机器人研究.
- 这些机器人的感知外部力量的能力为研究连续机器人动力学和控制开辟了新的途径.
- 开放连续机器人项目促进了协作开发,并加速了该领域的创新.
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