Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 28, 2023 - July 01, 2023
Currently, a robot with rimless wheels has been proposed to avoid destroying grassland. Therefore, our research proposes a rimless castor-type three-wheeled mobile robot. The objective is to quantitatively evaluate the slippage in order to design a robot that reduces slippage against the ground during its movement. We visualized the slippage that occurred during the robot’s movement, and then used image processing to quantify and evaluate the slippage. We conducted an experiment in which a crayon was attached to a miniature robot and the robot was made to run on a flat surface, and the recorded trajectory was evaluated by an evaluation program. As a result, it was found that slippage occurred when the robot switched directions. This study showed that the slip evaluation system is effective on flat surfaces.
