Journal of South China University of Technology (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2011, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 50-55,61.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2011.04.009

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Design of a Modular Robot Platform

Zhou Xue-feng  Jiang Li  Zhu Hai-fei  Cai Chuan-wu  Guan Yi-sheng  Zhang Xian-min   

  1. School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering,South China University ofTechnology,Guangzhou 510640,Guangdong,China
  • Received:2010-09-06 Revised:2010-10-22 Online:2011-04-25 Published:2011-03-01
  • Contact: 周雪峰(1982-)，男，博士生，主要从事仿生机器人研究 E-mail:mad2002@126.com
  • About author:周雪峰(1982-)，男，博士生，主要从事仿生机器人研究
  • Supported by:

    国家自然科学基金资助项目(50975089)；国家“863”计划项目(2009AA04Z204)

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Abstract:

In order to overcome such shortcoming as low flexibility,poor fault tolerance,poor self-repairing ability as shown in bask-based design of traditional robots,and to reduce the use cost of robots,a modular robot platform is designed.In the investigation,first,the overall design of the modular platform is presented.Then,the design principles and implementations of the hardware and the software of the platform are introduced.Finally,five robots,namely a manipulator,a wheeled mobile robot,a biped walking robot,a wall-climbing robot and a tree-climbing robot,are built for the proposed platform,for which some simulations and experiments are performed.Experimental results show that the proposed modular design method is feasible with high performance.

Key words: modular robot, robotic module, joint module, functional module