Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
Although how to perform tasks at disaster sites has been actively discussed, there is little debate on important issues such as how to deliver robots to disaster sites. We propose to drop a humanoid robot with a parachute from an airplane as one of the methods of delivering robots. In this research, we aim to establish a method to absorb the shock at the time of landing by whole body motion for preventing the damage to the robot. As an early stage of this research, drop tests using a small one-legged robot were conducted. From the viewpoint obtained by these experiments, we designed a parachute landing motion for the small robot heuristically and succeeded in reducing the impact force to 40%.
