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

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

2287

Lastpage

2291

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1275-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2012.6285700

Filename

6285700