Title :
Bionic design of the body of tank-like climbing robot
Author :
Zhang, Yongjie ; Wu, Xuan ; Liu, Yanwei ; Hu, Chongyang ; Sun, Shaoming ; Mei, Tao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Precision Machinery & Precision Instrum., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China
Abstract :
The body of tank-like climbing robot is prone to bend under the continuate action of the preload of treads and the weight of the robot. Increasing the thickness of the body can reduce the bending, but it will also increase the weight of robot, which make against the weight reduction. The elytra of beetles have excellent mechanical properties. In this paper, the unique shape of the elytra of the beetles is extracted and a bionic body for tank-like climbing robot is designed. With the same thickness of the body, the bionic body can reduce the deformation and increase the strength at the same time.
Keywords :
bending; biocybernetics; deformation; design engineering; mobile robots; plastic deformation; robot kinematics; beetle elytra; bending; bionic design; body thickness; deformation reduction; mechanical properties; robot weight reduction; tank-like climbing robot body; Biological system modeling; Climbing robots; Gravity; Load modeling; Strain; Stress; bionics; design of body; elytra of beetles; tank-like climbing robot;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1275-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2012.6285700
