Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
This paper describes structural design and circuit design of “Net-Structure Proximity Sensor” for mobile robots, especially snake robots. Requirements for the sensor is to refrain for inferring any motion of the robots and to be easily added to the control systems. The size and shape are determined to prevent both contact to the road-surface and interference to the movement range of the servomotors of the robots. The sensing and amplifier circuits are designed to enhance the sensitivity for attitude errors against the road-surface and to be driven by single power supply, which makes it easy to drive the sensor by the Li-polymer batteries and to handle the output signals by the microcomputers.
