1P1-L11 Development of DigBot for Monitoring the Underground Environment(Robotics and Mechatronics for Transportation and Manufacturing Machine)

Abstract

A digging robot named "DigBot" has been developed by our laboratory for monitoring the underground environment and exploring the lunar surface. The purpose of this research is to develop the robot which can dig soil and sand automatically. In this proceeding, first, concept of DigBot is shown. As a basic research of developing Digbot, Contra-rotating drill is developed and made for trial purpose. And then digging experiment is carried out for verifying effectiveness through the Contra-rotating drill. It was proved that DigBot possess incomparably more power than ever before.