Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
Manipulation of heavy objects using traditional mobile robots is very difficult because they often fall by reactive forces when they apply a large force to an object. In this study, small mobile robots with a linear actuator and a passive joint at the foot of it are developed not to fall by these reactive forces. The robots can variously manipulate heavy objects by cooperating with one another. As an example, inclination of a heavy object, which is important to realize transportation, is demonstrated by the cooperation of the two developed robots. They succeeded to incline an object more than 40kg.
