DocumentCode
2018697
Title
TerminatorBot: a robot with dual-use arms for manipulation and locomotion
Author
Voyles, Richard M.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Volume
1
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
61
Abstract
A novel, miniature robot designed to use its two arms for both manipulation and locomotion is described. Intended for military and civilian surveillance and search-and-rescue applications, the robot must be small, rugged, and lightweight, hence the desire for dual-use. The robot consists of two, three-degree-of-freedom arms that can stow completely inside the 75 mm diameter cylindrical body for ballistic deployment. This paper describes the mechanism and design motivation as well as two novel locomotion gaits and a third conventional gait
Keywords
mobile robots; 3-DOF arms; 75 mm; TerminatorBot; ballistic deployment; civilian surveillance; diameter cylindrical body; dual-use arms; locomotion; manipulation; military surveillance; miniature robot; search-and-rescue applications; Arm; Computer science; Design engineering; Layout; Manipulators; Military computing; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Surveillance; Termination of employment;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
1050-4729
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5886-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844040
Filename
844040
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