Abstract
Infrastructures for human activities e.g. elevators are almost not designed for robots and telescopic manipulators will be a solution for extending the mobility of robots. We designed a novel telescopic manipulator mechanism which comprises aggregated convex tapes as an arm. The convex arm has unique characters - e.g. wide telescopic range and toughness against mechanical stresses. In this study, we designed two kinds of telescopic manipulators to challenge the automatic boarding to the elevator for a mobile robot. We could successfully achieve the model task and in the future, with improvements of the telescopic manipulator, we can realize a low-cost practical three-dimensional movable robot.
