Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
Recently conflicts between wildlife and human becomes worldwide problem, but conservation of wild animals is also a current hot topic. We are developing a unique multilegged robot“WhiteGoat” series for animal menacing to reduce wildlife damage. For the goat series, we employed simple mechanical leg driving system - inverted Chebyshev link with 3D trot vectoring mechanism, so the durability is relative higher than conventional legged robot. We have already reported the desk top sized prototype, but the size should be not enough for menacing bears etc. In this report, we will describe the next generation of the robot series, goat-size prototype “GuardianGoat”: the expanded driving mechanism and telescopic manipulator as non-lethal threating equipment.
