Snake, walking and group robots for super mechano-system

Author

Hirose, Shigeo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech.-Areosp. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

129

Abstract

We discuss the general concept of the super mechano-system (SMS) and show the meaning of SMS exemplifying the human body. We show several features and anticipated applications of SMS and illustrate three types of SMS, such as snake-like robots, walking-type robots, and group type robots called a super mechano-colony. Design and features of several types of already constructed SMS robots such as snake-like robot “ACMR1”, rescue robot “Souryu”, steep slope walking robot “TITANVII”, walking demining robot, group rovers with parent and children units called SMC rover are then discussed

Keywords

mobile robots; multi-robot systems; ACMR1; Souryu; TITANVII; group rovers; group type robots; rescue robot; snake-like robots; steep slope walking robot; super mechano-colony; super mechano-system; walking demining robot; walking-type robots; Arm; Couplings; Educational technology; Humans; Leg; Legged locomotion; Mechanical engineering; Mechanical systems; Robot kinematics; Sliding mode control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.823167

Filename

823167