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A Study on Task Planning and Design of Modular Quadruped Robot with Docking Capability

결합 가능한 모듈형 4족 로봇의 설계 및 작업 계획에 대한 연구

  • Sun, Eun-Hey (Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Hankyong National University) ;
  • Kim, Yong-Tae (Dept. of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Hankyong National University)
  • 선은혜 (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과) ;
  • 김용태 (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과)
  • Received : 2016.05.16
  • Accepted : 2016.06.13
  • Published : 2016.06.25
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Abstract

There are many researches to develop robots that improve its mobility and task planning to adapt in various uneven environments. In this paper, we propose the design method and task planning of quadruped robot which can have top-bottom docking structure. The proposed quadruped robot is designed to adjust leg length using linear actuators and perform top-bottom docking and undocking using octagonal cone shaped docking module. Also, to stable walking and information gathering in the various environments, a geomagnetic sensor, PSD sensor, LRF sensor and camera. We propose an obstacle avoidance method and the topbottom docking algorithm of the two quadruped robots using linear actuator. The robot can overcome obstacles using adjusting leg length and activate the top-bottom docking function. The top-bottom docking robots of two quadruped robot can walk 4 legged walking and 6 legged walking, and use 4 arms or 2 arms the upper. We verified that the docking robots can carry objects using 4 leg of the upper robot.

최근 다양한 환경에서 지능형 로봇의 안정된 이동과 작업계획에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 상하 결합가능한 구조의 4족 로봇의 설계 및 작업 계획방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 4족 로봇은 리니어 모터를 이용하여 다리 길이를 조절하고, 팔각뿔 형태의 도킹모듈을 이용하여 상하 결합과 분리가 가능하도록 설계하였다. 또한 로봇이 다양한 환경에서 안정된 이동과 정보 수집을 위하여 지자기 센서, PSD 센서, LRF 센서와 카메라를 사용하였다. 리니어 모터를 이용한 장애물 회피 동작방법과 상하 결합 동작방법을 제안하고 구현하였다. 로봇은 다리 길이를 조절하여 장애물을 극복하고, 두 대의 로봇이 상하 결합을 통하여 협력 작업방법을 제안하였다. 두 대의 4족 로봇이 상하 결합을 통하여 4족과 6족 보행을 하고, 상부 결합 로봇의 4개의 다리를 4개의 팔 또는 2개의 팔로 사용할 수 있으며, 결합된 로봇을 이용하여 물건 옮기기 작업을 구현하고, 각 동작들을 실제 실험으로 기능을 검증하였다.

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