Open AccessDesign and Fabrication of Octopod for Survey and Rescue Operation
Author(s) -
Vineet Kumar,
B. Meenakshipriya,
P. T. Bijoy Antony,
B R Adithya,
M Hari Vikinesh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1055/1/012021
Subject(s) - terrain , robot , engineering , simulation , point (geometry) , mobile robot , computer science , control engineering , artificial intelligence , geography , geometry , cartography , mathematics
Although wheel is an ideal method of locomotion and the invention of the spoke wheel made a wheel lighter and swifter, a wheel cannot function well on slanted or rough surfaces. Further, the load support of the wheel is limited to a point of the whole wheel in contact with the ground. In rough and rocky terrains, wheels become ineffective or not able to serve the purpose. On realizing this fact, a new design and fabrication is suggested and a walking robot is designed accordingly. In the practical life, the usage of robots has been felt especially in search and rescue operations, extraterrestrial exploration and many more such applications. In these areas, the existing wheeled robots are not able to perform well and hence they can be replaced with walking robots of special design. In distant areas, many expeditions of walking robot need the tele-operation mode. Yet, sensing the terrains and controlling the robots become difficult for a human operator with the available capabilities and hence the walking robot should be designed in such a way that even with limited feedback from the remote operator, it should have adequate autonomy to take due advantage of its competency and capabilities. The paper envisages a new method of real-time motion planning on rough and rugged surface and in this paper, an octopod is designed, developed and fabricated accordingly.