Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework

This paper presents a proposed reconfigurable multi-legged robot named Hexapod-to-Quadruped (Hexaquad) robot. Reconfigurable legged robot is one of the robotics research area that is generally focused on optimizing the usage of leg during locomotion. Until recent years, most of the researches emphas...

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Main Authors: Irawan, Addie, A. R., Razali, Wan Faizal, Wan Ishak, Mohd Rizal, Arshad, Tan, Yee Yin
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spelling ump-105362018-01-09T01:51:30Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10536/ Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework Irawan, Addie A. R., Razali Wan Faizal, Wan Ishak Mohd Rizal, Arshad Tan, Yee Yin TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper presents a proposed reconfigurable multi-legged robot named Hexapod-to-Quadruped (Hexaquad) robot. Reconfigurable legged robot is one of the robotics research area that is generally focused on optimizing the usage of leg during locomotion. Until recent years, most of the researches emphasized on leg reconfigurable design in order to solve the fault tolerant, stability, multi-tasking and energy efficiency. However, the emphasis of the Hexaquad robot is on providing optimum leg usage, actuation configuration as well as satisfying the legged robot stability criterion in reconfiguration mechanism. Inspired from several living creatures, such as insects, crustacean and peristaltic creatures, Hexaquad is designed and modeled to perform flexible spine for leg adjustment and foot-to-gripper transformation. The design also implements the indirect and parallel actuation configuration on leg-joint motion for optimum torque on the joint of each leg without motor/actuator mass affect that commonly happens in multi-limbed system with direct drive configuration. The minimum torque on each joint of the leg is calculated using the static torque calculation on multi-link structure before the actuator/motor is selected, and verification is done by performing fundamental testing on the leg’s movement and standing using direct switching and supply voltage. Further testing and analysis were conducted on the gripper by performing gripping tests using materials of different weight and shape versus total load current on the leg’s actuators. Stress and displacement testing and analysis were also done on the foot-to-gripper (FTG) structure of Hexaquad robot. The results show that the FTG is able to hold 50N forces without any breaking point being detected as well as able to maintain its shape, strength and position upon receiving the forces (surpassing the main objective to lift a 5kg load). Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN) 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10536/1/DEVELOPMENT%20OF%20HEXAQUAD%20ROBOT.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10536/7/fkee-2015-addie-Development%20of%20Hexaquad%20Robot.pdf Irawan, Addie and A. R., Razali and Wan Faizal, Wan Ishak and Mohd Rizal, Arshad and Tan, Yee Yin (2015) Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 10 (23). pp. 17506-17513. ISSN 1819-6608 http://www.arpnjournals.org/jeas/research_papers/rp_2015/jeas_1215_3201.pdf
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topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Irawan, Addie
A. R., Razali
Wan Faizal, Wan Ishak
Mohd Rizal, Arshad
Tan, Yee Yin
Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework
description This paper presents a proposed reconfigurable multi-legged robot named Hexapod-to-Quadruped (Hexaquad) robot. Reconfigurable legged robot is one of the robotics research area that is generally focused on optimizing the usage of leg during locomotion. Until recent years, most of the researches emphasized on leg reconfigurable design in order to solve the fault tolerant, stability, multi-tasking and energy efficiency. However, the emphasis of the Hexaquad robot is on providing optimum leg usage, actuation configuration as well as satisfying the legged robot stability criterion in reconfiguration mechanism. Inspired from several living creatures, such as insects, crustacean and peristaltic creatures, Hexaquad is designed and modeled to perform flexible spine for leg adjustment and foot-to-gripper transformation. The design also implements the indirect and parallel actuation configuration on leg-joint motion for optimum torque on the joint of each leg without motor/actuator mass affect that commonly happens in multi-limbed system with direct drive configuration. The minimum torque on each joint of the leg is calculated using the static torque calculation on multi-link structure before the actuator/motor is selected, and verification is done by performing fundamental testing on the leg’s movement and standing using direct switching and supply voltage. Further testing and analysis were conducted on the gripper by performing gripping tests using materials of different weight and shape versus total load current on the leg’s actuators. Stress and displacement testing and analysis were also done on the foot-to-gripper (FTG) structure of Hexaquad robot. The results show that the FTG is able to hold 50N forces without any breaking point being detected as well as able to maintain its shape, strength and position upon receiving the forces (surpassing the main objective to lift a 5kg load).
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author Irawan, Addie
A. R., Razali
Wan Faizal, Wan Ishak
Mohd Rizal, Arshad
Tan, Yee Yin
author_facet Irawan, Addie
A. R., Razali
Wan Faizal, Wan Ishak
Mohd Rizal, Arshad
Tan, Yee Yin
author_sort Irawan, Addie
title Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework
title_short Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework
title_full Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework
title_fullStr Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework
title_full_unstemmed Development of Hexaquad Robot: Modeling and Framework
title_sort development of hexaquad robot: modeling and framework
publisher Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN)
publishDate 2015
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10536/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10536/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10536/1/DEVELOPMENT%20OF%20HEXAQUAD%20ROBOT.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10536/7/fkee-2015-addie-Development%20of%20Hexaquad%20Robot.pdf
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