Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
Recently, the development of human-friendly robots has been desired. Wheeled mobile robots are often used in human friendly robots. When developing the human-friendly wheeled mobile robots, safety consideration for humans is one of most important issues. Computer-aided control techniques can improve the safety of the robots. However, if the robot’s computer breaks down, the robot will be dangerous for humans because the robot can move unintentionally. Furthermore, the robot may move down a slope at high speeds after the batteries in the robot have died. To solve these problems, we have developed a velocity-based mechanical safety brake. In this paper, we describe the design of a wheeled mobile robot equipped with the velocity-based mechanical brakes to verify the effectiveness of the brakes by experiments.
