Title :
A team of walking robots; control and navigation problems
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Power & Aeronaut. Eng., Inst. of Aircraft Eng. & Appl. Mech., Warsaw, Poland
Abstract :
The paper presents navigation method elaborated for a group of hexapods walking together with remote supervision by the operator. The navigation principles are described referring it to the elaborated programming system. Method of self navigation and autonomous gait generation is introduced relating it to the terrain properties. The control system was elaborated with the assumption that the machines can move together without collisions and following the geographic coordinates send by the operator from the remote central station. The machines are locally self-navigated avoiding obstacles and changing the gaits depends on surface properties.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; legged locomotion; navigation; robot programming; telecontrol; autonomous gait generation; collisions; control system; gait changing; geographic coordinates; hexapods; obstacle avoidance; operator; remote central station; remote supervision; robot control; robot navigation; robot programming; self navigation; surface properties; terrain properties; walking robots; Aircraft navigation; Communication system control; Control systems; DC motors; Legged locomotion; Magnetic materials; Magnetic sensors; Motion control; Photonic crystals; Robot control;
Conference_Titel :
Robot Motion and Control, 2005. RoMoCo '05. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
83-7143-266-6
DOI :
10.1109/ROMOCO.2005.201395