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JL-2: A Mobile Multi-robot System with Docking and Manipulating Capabilities
Author(s) -
Wei Wang,
Wenpeng Yu,
Houxiang Zhang
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of advanced robotic systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1729-8814
pISSN - 1729-8806
DOI - 10.5772/7256
Subject(s) - computer science , dock , robot , mobile robot , control reconfiguration , docking (animal) , embedded system , simulation , artificial intelligence , engineering , medicine , nursing , marine engineering
This paper presents a new version of the JL series reconfigurable multi-robot system called JL-2. By virtue of the docking manipulator composed of a parallel mechanism and a cam gripper, every mobile robot in the JL-2 system is able to not only perform tasks in parallel, e.g. moving and grasping, but also dock with each other even if there are large misalignments between two robots. A motorized spherical joint is formed between two docked robots to enhance the locomotion capability of JL-2. To fulfill the demands of reconfiguration, a distributed control system and sonar based docking guidance system are designed for the JL-2 prototype. Based on the above design, the JL-2 prototype has been built and successfully demonstrated to confirm the validity and functionality of the proposed capabilities

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