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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2009.19.5.674

Design of a Chain-Type Modular Robot  

Lee, Bo-Hee (세명대학교 전기공학과)
Lee, Sang-Kyung (세명대학교 전기공학과)
Kong, Jung-Shik (인덕대 기계설계과)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.19, no.5, 2009 , pp. 674-682 More about this Journal
Abstract
The modular robot is one which was developed to get over limit of the space movement for the mobile robot. The chain type robot in particular is connected by series each other and this form expression method is simple and easy to really make a docking method efficiently. However, the related studies were focused on the movement that used to be combination, and the movement of a cell independent mainly does not consist and have a problem to dock only in a direction, not to be connected with all directions. Therefore, we suggested a modular structure for quick, independent movement to solve such a problem and had own autonomy. In addition, we are intended to get some effectiveness for connection mechanism using one locking motor. In this paper, we dealt with the design for the mechanical and electrical points and docking algorithm including communication method. All of the structure is verified with real action experiment through the shape expressions of various application platform.
Keywords
Modular robot; connection mechanism; combination; mobile robot; docking algorithm;
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