• DocumentCode
    3065223
  • Title

    Implementation and control of a reconfigureable 4-tetrahedral robot

  • Author

    Abrahantes, Miguel ; Doorn, Peter ; Richard, Jerry ; Barbachyn, Steve

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Hope Coll., Holland, MI
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    15-17 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    344
  • Lastpage
    349
  • Abstract
    This work describes the implementation and control of a 4-Tetrahedron walker. The hardware selection in building the robot will be covered. Both mechanical systems and the electronic control systems will be discussed in detail. This work is part of the contribution of the Hope College team to the development of tetrahedron walker robots by the ANTS (Autonomous Nano-Technology Swarm) group at Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA.
  • Keywords
    mobile robots; 4-tetrahedral walker; electronic control system; hardware selection; mechanical system; reconfigurable robot control; Control systems; Educational robots; Legged locomotion; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Prototypes; Robot kinematics; Robotic assembly; Space technology; Subspace constraints;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System Theory, 2009. SSST 2009. 41st Southeastern Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Tullahoma, TN
  • ISSN
    0094-2898
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3324-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0094-2898
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SSST.2009.4806844
  • Filename
    4806844