Abstract
A CardBot is a crawler with a thin card-sized structure, which has a limit in crawling when turned upside down. A double-sided CardBot presented in this paper is a robot that can crawl even when it is turned upside down because it can crawl on both sides. By adding one more robot body on a single-sided CardBot and sharing a motor to drive both slider cranks, a low height doublesided robot can be made. This 19 mm high, 26.39 g robot can crawl at a speed of 0.25 m/s. Thanks to the low body height, the robot can explore narrow gaps. Experiments were conducted to compare the running performance between the single-sided CardBot and the double-sided CardBot. Compared with a singlesided CardBot, only little degradation of the performance occurs due to implementation of a double-sided driving. The design has been adapted to reduce the friction, but the weakness of the shared joint due to the interaction of both cranks remains an unsolved problem. The structure of the robot will be modified to provide better performance in the future.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 562-566 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| Volume | 10384 LNCS |
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| State | Published - 2017 |
| Event | 6th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2017 - Stanford, United States Duration: 26 Jul 2017 → 28 Jul 2017 |
Keywords
- Double-sided
- Hexapod
- Legged locomotion