Title
Proposal of tendon-driven elastic telescopic arm and initial bending experiment
Abstract
It is desirable to have an arm with a thin and long structure in order to observe a wide area through a narrow space for the survey at the disaster site. In addition, if the arm is lightweight and compact, there are fewer restrictions on the installation location, which leads to an improvement in the observation range. The telescopic structure has a high extension-to-contraction ratio and is a suitable structure to attain the aforementioned requirements. However, conventional telescopic arms can not avoid obstacles on the axis of extension because of high rigidity, so it is restricted to use in an open environment. In this paper, we propose an arm that controls the tip position by bending the structure with a wire by constructing a small diameter arm with a telescopic elastic body. We also examined the technical elements necessary to realize the proposed method and demonstrated the validity. It is difficult to bend in multiple directions or the whole structure by winding the wire only attached to the structure tip. Therefore, we devised a wire driving method in which bending moments are distributed as much as possible on the base side by arranging pulleys in multiple positions, and confirmed the desired motion through experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/SII.2017.8279206
2017 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)
Keywords
Field
DocType
tendon-driven elastic telescopic arm,initial bending experiment,disaster site,observation range,telescopic structure,high extension-to-contraction ratio,telescopic elastic body,bending moments,wire driving method
Rigidity (psychology),Bending moment,Torque,Bending,Control engineering,Electromagnetic coil,Engineering,Elasticity (economics),Pulley,Tendon,Structural engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-2317
978-1-5386-2264-3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Fujioka110.37
Gen Endo248953.07
Koichi Suzumori322765.75
Hiroyuki Nabae41712.12