Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
In this research, we develop an automatic compression and release device for jumping leg mechanism of bird-type flying robot. In our previous papers, we have developed a jumping leg mechanism to takeoff a flapping flight robot and succeeded in takeoff experiment. However, in the experiment, the developed mechanism had to compress and release manually.
In this research, we develop a device that automatically compresses and releases the jumping leg mechanism. The device applies a force from the outside using the string and the motor to the jumping leg mechanism, and performs the compression and release. Using this device, we performed an automatic jumping experiment of the flapping robot and confirmed that the robot can jump with initial velocity close to that when manually compressing and releasing.
