21113 On structural characteristic of skin-cylinder cantilevers with triggers and its application to safety design

Abstract

The final goal of this study is to produce safety structures for human friendly robots. This paper describes a study on the buckling/collapse behavior and maximum load of skin cylinder cantilevers with various reinforcements and triggers. The buckling/collapse behavior and the maximum load depend on the way of the reinforcements near the trigger. The buckling/collapse behavior mechanism is also discussed. These results show that the skin cylinders with triggers have advantage in light weight and are available to safety structures for human friendly robots, etc.