Tuesday, April 7, 2009
InchBot-III comes alive!
InchBot is a biomimetic soft-bodied inchworm robot actuated by shape memory alloy springs, controlled by a pair of coupled neural oscillators, and powered by a Li-Po battery. It is completely autonomous with the ability to conform to the substrate as a soft body. The exploitation of this compliance allows the robot to operate without feedback over a range of terrain variations, much like the real animal. InchBot-III can crawl up to 5mm/s on a tabletop and carry a payload backpack up to 15g (bottom photo). The whole robot can be rolled up and compressed into one palm (top picture).
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活起來！InchBot-III
ReplyDeleteInchBot為模仿毛毛蟲的軟體機器人，以〈形狀記憶合金彈簧〉由乙對神經耦合振子驅動控制，裝備了一只鋰電池，以功能相應的基材作為軟組織；在某一範圍變化的地勢，她可以像真實毛毛蟲，無需反饋信息完全自主地爬動；在水平桌子上，InchBot-III爬行速度能達到每秒5亳米，背部酬載包，有效載重量最高為15克（下圖）。
整個機器人可以捲起來壓縮於手掌心中（上圖）。