Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, The Society of Chemical Engineers, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
Co-host: Technically Cosponsored by 51 Societies and Institutes
Name : THE 59TH JAPAN JOINT AUTOMATIC CONTROL CONFERENCE
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : November 10, 2016 - November 12, 2016
This paper presents a new path-following feedback control method of a snake-like robot with multiple steering systems. Wheels of the steering systems are all passive. The snake-like robot transforms periodic driving of its joints into its movement through periodic operation of its steering systems. Especially, the orientations of the links are controllable via the steering systems so that it is possible to cause the midpoints of all the links to follow a single path, which facilitates to examine the collision of any part of the robot with obstacles in advance. The validity of this method has been verified in simulations.