Title :
The Martian man — A heuristic approach on robots to Mars
Author :
Ramesh, S. ; Sairam, M. ; Kumar, S. Mohan ; Sreekanth ; Harikrishnan, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Meenakshi Sundararajan Eng. Coll., Chennai, India
Abstract :
In this paper, we have furnished our ideas about this fully Biomimetric Mars Robot i.e. it has been designed based on the creatures that are still existent or extinct. This effectively adds to the quality of the robot. This robot is capable of taking the design of three different creatures, namely: a bird, a dinosaur and a rat. This robot has the feet of a bird, leg of a dinosaur and the body of a rat. This lends stability to the biomimtric robot. The unique feature of this robot is that, it has 5 segment feet, which would provide grip to the robot on a curved surface. This can be portrayed like a bird clinging on to a branch of the tree. Another notable feature of this robot is that, it´s three fingers are placed 120° apart so that it can even hold on to an egg without breaking it. This robot is 2133.6 mm in height, 1219.2 mm in breadth and weighs about 863.7 kg. Moreover, its feet are well stabilized well and its centre of gravity is focused to the centre. This is the precise design of the Martian man.
Keywords :
biomimetics; mobile robots; robot kinematics; stability; Martian man; biomimetric Mars robot; bird; centre of gravity; curved surface; dinosaur; rat; stability; Atmospheric measurements; Birds; Chemical analysis; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Information technology; Mars; Orbital robotics; Probes; Robots; The Martian man (TMM); airbag; bio-bot (biomimetric robot); mars; power synthesizers; solar panel; sub-bots; turbine;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2009 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guilin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4774-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4775-6
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2009.5420990